asking command cut

[erche]

Hello,
I have a problem with cut -d -f$list
the requirements of "cut" command, the list have to be sorted increasing.
but, somehow, i have a list which is have to look like this :

1,2,3,4,5,29,25,11,15,231,227,213,217,433,429,415,419,635,
631,617,621,837,833,819,823,1039,1035,1021,1025,1241,1237,
1223,1227,1443,1439,1425,1429,1645,1641,1627,1631,1847,1843,1829,1833,2049,2045,2031,2035,2251,2247,2233,2237

Anyway, the list has to look like that.
So, I hope that somebody would give me suggestions how to make it work ?

Thanks in advance

 

[Annihilannic]

Here is a not very clever way to do it:

[tt]awk -F, '
BEGIN {
for (i=1; i<ARGC; i++) { fields=ARGV }
delete ARGV
}
{
for (i=1; i<ARGC; i++) { printf(&quot;%s,&quot;,$fields); }
print &quot;&quot;
} ' 1 7 4 13 < inputfile[/tt]

Where you replace 1 7 4 13 with the list of field numbers you want to extract.

I had to copy the ARGV array into the fields array and delete ARGV or else it would try and open files called 1, 7, 4, 13, etc.

I'll see if I can think of something better...


Annihilannic.