[TUHS] Questions about the history of cut(1)

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Mon May 18 21:49:40 AEST 2015


Doug McIlroy scripsit:

> I believe cut/paste originated in PWB Unix, but I can't recall who
> wrote it.

Huh.  I didn't know paste(1) existed; I've always used pr -m to laminate
files (with appropriate options to shut off the unwanted formatting).

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