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From: wyle@solaris.UUCP (Mitchell Wyle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need source for cut
Summary: No you don't
Keywords: cut(1)
Message-ID: <510@solaris.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 12:35:44 GMT
References: <oXqT3ty00ZJ8A7xHRy@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: wyle@ethz.UUCP (Mitchell Wyle)
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mr2w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael F. Riccio) writes:
>For some reason, the IBM RT's here at Carnegie Mellon do not have the
>unix program cut available, and I can't seem to find the source for

You want to use sed instead.  I tore cut out of my mailsplit package
when I ported it other unix machines.  (Sung to the tune of "Anything
You can do, I can do better:")

  Everything cut can do sed can faster.  
  sed can do anything better for you.
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-Mitchell F. Wyle                         wyle@ethz.uucp
Institut fuer Informationsysteme          wyle@inf.ethz.ch
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