David Krider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is the changed behavior in cut (with an output > delimiter) a bug or a feature?
I'd say a bug, albeit a relatively-low-priority one since (as you mentioned) the old behavior was undocumented and unsupported. If you can write a patch (or find someone else to do so) I suspect the coreutils maintainer would look upon it favorably. Perhaps the hardest part of writing a patch would be fixing the documentation to say exactly what cut -b/-c should do when fields abut but do not overlap. For example, presumably this: cut --output-delimiter='|' -c 1-10,11-20,21-30,15-25 would output a delimiter between columns 10 and 11, but not between 20 and 21. If you're coding a solution, you might also look at the Nieuwenhuizen-Meyering patch of 2003-01-09? Please see: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-01/msg00002.html _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
