Hello. I’m not sure if this is a bug - I just wanted to let you know. Thanks, Tomek
—— When there is more than one column and we go beyond the number of columns with the -f option, the output is empty $ echo "test1 test2" | cut -d' ' -f1 test1 $ echo "test1 test2" | cut -d' ' -f2 test2 $ echo "test1 test2" | cut -d' ' -f3 $ —— When there is only one column and we go beyond 1 with the -f option, the output remains the first column $ echo "test1" | cut -d' ' -f1 test1 $ echo "test1" | cut -d' ' -f2 test1 $ echo "test1" | cut -d' ' -f3 test1 My setup: $ cut --version cut (GNU coreutils) 8.21 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by David M. Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering. $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty
