GNU bug report logs - #19240
cut 8.22 adds newline

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: John Kendall <john <at> capps.com>

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 16:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #39 received at 19240 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: John Kendall <john <at> capps.com>, 
 "19240 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <19240 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Cc: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Subject: Re: bug#19240: cut 8.22 adds newline
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:39:16 -0800

On 12/04/2014 10:41 AM, John Kendall wrote:
> echo "$FILE ===========================\c"| cut -c1-30

Since you're going to have to rewrite it anyway if you want it to be 
portable, I suggest doing it this way:

printf '%.30s' "$FILE ==========================="

as it's a lot more efficient anyway.
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