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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 10:04:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: man cut should mention no way to do ls -l|cut ...
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:37:10 +0800

On (info "(coreutils) cut invocation")

‘-d INPUT_DELIM_BYTE’
‘--delimiter=INPUT_DELIM_BYTE’
     With ‘-f’, use the first byte of INPUT_DELIM_BYTE as the input
     fields separator (default is TAB).

please mention there is no way to indicate more than one character,
thus no way to process
$ ls -l | cut ...
and that one should use awk, etc. for that.

Also mention it on the cut(1) man page.
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