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From: Steve Roe <sydbarrett927 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: cut bug
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:53:01 -0400

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I found a cut bug while I was running on the terminal. I can cut one field
and it will display as normal. However when I try and cut multiple fields,
it does not. For example this is what I type - "-d: -f2, f3 inputfile.dat".
The following message displays - "cut: fields and positions are numbered
from 1". Please advise. Thanks!

S

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Steve Roe <sydbarrett927 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 12307-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12307: cut bug
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:52:12 -0700

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tag 12307 notabug
thanks

On 08/29/2012 08:53 AM, Steve Roe wrote:
> I found a cut bug while I was running on the terminal. I can cut one field
> and it will display as normal. However when I try and cut multiple fields,
> it does not. For example this is what I type - "-d: -f2, f3 inputfile.dat".
> The following message displays - "cut: fields and positions are numbered
> from 1". Please advise. Thanks!

Your issue is learning the right syntax for calling cut, and not a bug
in cut itself.  Try using:

cut -d: -f2,3 inputfile.dat

(notice that specifying multiple fields requires compressing all of the
ranges into a single argument, with no space separation).

For now I'm closing this bug, although you can continue to reply to it
for further discussion.  Perhaps that means we should reopen this report
if someone is willing to write a documentation patch.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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