Subject: Re: bug#7443: bug in cut -n " " -f 1 *

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:22:44 +0000

On 19/11/10 13:53, Yasmani Lara wrote:
> Hi core team, i'm  relatively new on linux  and recently  test something *cut
> -n " " -f 1 **  and what sorprise an unexpected result, a fall of letters
> and don't stop until Crtl+C keypress. Forgive my bad english, still
> learning. Grettings from Cuba

Hi.
This seems like incorrect usage.
The command presented will output everything
before the first \t in each file in the current directory,
including any binary files.

I'm guessing you may want: cut -d ' ' -f1 -- *

thanks,
Pádraig.