Re: cut: Changing order of output fields

[Jim Meyering]

Marco Schmidt <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...] Is changing the order of fields in output as specified
> after -f an option that could be added to cut (if the maintainers read
> this group)?

No.  Sorry.  Adding such functionality (already available via
other tools) would make cut's code more complex and less maintainable.
If you want to reorder the fields, use gawk, perl, sed, etc.
or a combination of cut and paste.