tag 23922 notabug close 23922 stop Hello Jens,
> On Jul 8, 2016, at 19:05, Jens Mueller <jens.k.muel...@gmx.de> wrote: > > $ echo "abc" | cut -f 2 -d " " > > and I expect the empty line as output but you get "abc\n". It is not a bug, but correct behavior (though perhaps unexpected) to print "abc" in this case. The POSIX standard says (at http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cut.html): "-s Suppress lines with no delimiter characters, when used with the -f option. Unless specified, lines with no delimiters shall be passed through untouched." In GNU cut's help screen (cut --help) shows: -s, --only-delimited do not print lines not containing delimiters The following will demonstrate: $ printf "abc\nd f\n" | cut -f2 -d " " abc f $ printf "abc\nd f\n" | cut -s -f2 -d " " f As such, I'm closing this bug report - but discussion can continue by replying to this thread. regards, - assaf
