in reply to Faster and more efficient way to read a file vertically

My cut (GNU 8.25) also supports the -c and -b options to only print the given character or byte range, respectively.

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord }map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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Re^3: Faster and more efficient way to read a file vertically
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 03, 2017 at 15:27 UTC
    Great, I also saw it now!
    So basically I can say  cut -c 10 and get the 10th character. Thank you very much!