Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: coreutils
When given a 0 field in cut it used to just treat it as 1; now it
reports an error.
Old behavior (Gutsy):
$ echo foobar | cut -c0-3
foo
New behavior (Hardy):
$ echo foobar | cut -c0-3
cut: fields and positions are numbered from 1
Try `cut --help' for more information.
bash: echo: write error: Broken pipe
I wouldn't say this is a bug but it will cause problems elsewhere. I
noticed the problem in the /etc/init.d/xendomains script. Treating 0 as
1 is really harmless so leaving the old behavior doesn't seem to present
a problem. If the new behavior remains it might be worth trying to find
places where it causes problems and fix them prior to the release of
Hardy.
** Affects: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: xen-common (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: xen-common (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Change in cut behavior breaks scripts
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211262
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