Hello, today I received a large text file with fixed-length data fields to import them into our databases. I used the mighty cut but had to discover that it stops inserting output-delimiters when there are a lot of ranges.
My prompt was: cut -b30-34,37-41,53-82,83-112,113-142,143-148,153-182,233-262,263-292,293-322,323-327,233-352 --output-delimiter=";" GER0506.dat > GER0506_true.csv The output only has the first 7 semicolons of the expected eleven. I fixed it for my case by running cut a second time ( cut -b1-172,174-202,204-232,234-238,244-263 --output-delimiter=";" GER0506_true.csv > GER0506.csv ) but decided to report this behaviour because it seems undesired. Either I get output-delmiters (all of them) or not. Is this a bug? > cut --version cut (GNU coreutils) 8.14 Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
