I'm not sure whether this is a bug or not.

 

On Redhat Enterprise Linux, the cut command will accept the following " cut -c0-5 " (Cut ver 5.97)

On Fedora it will not accept the 0, it must be " cut -c1-5 " (cut ver 8.5)

 

Although both are functionally the same, they seem to only return 5 characters

The script it was written in worked without problems from Redhat 7.2 to present RHEL

I only noticed the problem with fedora 13 and 14.

 

I was able to copy the cut command from RHEL to Fedora 14 and it works fine. What am losing

  between these two versions?

 

Was there a divergence somewhere along the way where cut stopped tolerating the

   the 0 base index?

 

Thanks