why does "cut" print fields in original order?

[Todd Zullinger]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> This all rather begs the question of what tool to use after cut in
> order to reorder the fields?

Why use anything after cut when you can more easily just replace cut
for this task?

> Don't pretend the answer is sed or awk, or their ilk.

How would I be pretending about this output?

awk -F : '{print $7, $1}' /etc/passwd
/bin/bash root
/sbin/nologin bin
/sbin/nologin daemon
...

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