Hi Pádraig, Oh, I see - thanks for letting me know.
Kind regards, Tomek > On 29 Jun 2015, at 16:31, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > > tag 20928 notabug > close 20928 > stop > > On 29/06/15 09:18, Kuchta, Tomasz wrote: >> 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 > > That difference in behavior is there for compat reasons. > To induce the behavior you expect, you need the -s option. > > thanks, > Pádraig. >
