Hi, I'd like to report the following behavior of cut. I execute
$ echo "abc" | cut -f 2 -d " " and I expect the empty line as output but you get "abc\n". I believe the empty line is correct because I selected the second field which is empty. If you select the 3rd field $ echo "abc cde" | cut -f 3 -d " " it outputs the empty line and works as expected which supports my reasoning. I am running Debian with $ cut --version | head -1 cut (GNU coreutils) 8.25 Jens