Am 14.06.2011 22:35, schrieb Valery Mitsyn:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Chetan Tiwari wrote:
> 
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I was having trouble using the cut command and wasn't sure if anyone
>> else on
>> this list faced a similar problem. Perhaps I am doing something wrong and
>> any help will be much appreciated.
>>
>> I am using SL6 and the version of cut installed is "cut (GNU coreutils)
>> 8.4". I have a text file with the following line:
>>
>> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
>>
>> When I execute the following statement: "cut -c1-3,24- test.txt", I
>> get the
>> correct output: abcxyz. When I run the same command, but with a
>> --output-delimiter flag (i.e. cut -c1-3,24- test.txt
>> --output-delimiter="|"), I get the exact same output as before:
>> abcxyz. The
>> delimiter (I - pipe symbol) is missing.
> 
>  What is LANG/LC_ALL enveronment in your shell?
> If it is something with .UTF-8 try to set it without suffix.
> LANG=C cut --output-delimiter="|" -c 1-3,24- test.txt
> should do the trick.
> 

Try to use -b (bytes) instead of -c (characters). It works for me. The
info page of cut states that it is equal to -c at the moment but that
info is probably outdated.

While LANG=C works in my tests, oddly enough the results with
LANG=de_DE.utf8 do not depend on the number of bytes in the delimiter
character or the input.

>>
>> When I run the exact same commands on a machine running Ubuntu with "cut
>> (GNU coreutils) 7.4", I get the desired output: abc|xyz. The same problem
>> occurs with larger data files that I was trying to manipulate as well.
>>

Version 8.7 in Gentoo also seems to be correct.

Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp