Hi, I don't know if this is a bug, but I wonder if there is a consensus on correct behavior. The solaris version of cut does not add a newline if there was no newline on the input:
Consider this printf command: $ printf "1\n12\n123\n1234\n12345\n123456" 1 12 123 1234 12345 123456$ Note that the shell prompt appears after the 6 on the last line. # Solaris cut $ printf "1\n12\n123\n1234\n12345\n123456" | cut -c1-4 1 12 123 1234 1234 1234$ Note that the shell prompt appears after the 4 on the last line. #gnu 8.22 cut /$ printf "1\n12\n123\n1234\n12345\n123456" | cut -c1-4 1 12 123 1234 1234 1234 $ Note that the shell prompt appears on its own line. I came upon this while porting scripts from Solaris 10 to Centos 7. Interested to hear you thoughts. Thanks and best regards, John --- John Kendall System Administrator CAI International
