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

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:19:02 +0000

Your bug report

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

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#7443: bug in cut -n " " -f 1 *
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
To: Yasmani Lara <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:22:44 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

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.

Subject: bug in cut -n " " -f 1 *
From: Yasmani Lara <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:53:18 -0500
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

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

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