David Longstaff wrote: > I am probably doing it wrong, as I have only just installed the coreutils, > but I cannot pipe or redirect output from "cut". I know Unix shells pretty > well and windows command prompt reasonably well but after trying every > variation I can think of I cannot get to work. Other utils are ok, "cat" for > instance is ok.
Thank you for your report. In order to help debug this problem we will need some more information. Can you tell us whether you have compiled coreutils yourself or whether you installed a pre-compiled package from someplace? And along with that what version? You can get the version from the command itself with: cut --version That will also verify that you are invoking the program that you think you are invoking. There may be a different program named the same involved or a command alias or some such. Then since piping the output of a program is a common feature of all of the programs as you might expect it is working for us. If it were not then the tests for cut would have failed. If you compiled this could you show us the test results? There would be good information there. If you installed a pre-compiled package then this is most likely a problem with the tools from that particular source. Thanks Bob
