Talk:Cut

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An editor has added template to the page. The template says this: "Was this page created by accident or as a test? Please improve the educational quality of this page, and clarify what the intentions are on the discussion page so other people may contribute. The page might be able to remain at Wikibooks after 7 days when further development is likely. Additional comments: This reads like a Wikipedia article. Ideally it should be part of an existing Unix book"

This is neither a test nor an accident. It is a how-to page, and therefore not truly suited for Wikipedia. How-to pages do not need to be grouped in books. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 09:17, 12 July 2014 (UTC)


 * I see no reason why this page couldn’t be grouped with Grep, Sed, an (apparently not yet created) page on paste(1), and perhaps some page on Awk basics (though not a fully-featured manual AWK may come to be), to form a book on “Unix” text processing basics. In fact, I’d rather support such grouping.  — Ivan Shmakov (d ▞ c) 08:41, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
 * A grouping can be achieved by creating a category. It is very convenient to type "Cut" into Wikibooks and land on the page with how-to information that you were looking for; ditto for sed, grep, awk, etc. I oppose moving the "Cut" page to another location. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 10:38, 20 July 2014 (UTC)


 * The described behavior will be retained thanks to the redirects created when the pages are moved.
 * An appropriate “book pages” category will then be maintained automatically via BookCat.
 * As for the “etc.” part – there’s currently no Find page on Wikibooks; should one be created, what specific  command would it describe?
 * — Ivan Shmakov (d ▞ c) 13:47, 20 July 2014 (UTC)