Hello,
I noticed that the cut utility does not put a trailing newline on lines
when delimiter cutting from stdin is used. As an example of this:
bash> cut -f 1,3 -d ","
a,b,c,d,e
a,c
The results are correct in that "a,c" is returned, but there is no
trailing newline. This differs from the behavior if character or byte
cutting is selected:
bash> cut -c 1,3
a,b,c,d,e
ab
Here the line "ab" has a trailing newline.
I believe that the problem is with the while 'if' statement that begins on
line 523:
if (c == '\n')
{
c = getc (stream);
if (c != EOF)
{
ungetc (c, stream);
c = '\n';
}
}
The getc on the third line blocks until new data is entered so that the
putchar('\n') a few lines further down is not reached.
I'm not sure of a clean fix at this point but will continue to look at it.
Thank you,
Scott Herod
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