Re: A bug in cut?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Munzir Taha wrote:
>
> [mimo at localhost mimo]$ cut -b1 file3
> �
>  �
>   �
>    �
>     [mimo at localhost mimo]$
>
> Can you notice the ladder shape, the spaces embedded to the left. Even the
> prompt is affected. cut -b should only display the first byte of each line
> and they should be aligned in one column. I am sorry if I can't explain it
> well but I will try again if it's still not clear.

It's quite possible that the problem is with your terminal
emulator.  You can discover that by redirecting the output from
cut to a file, and check the file using hexdump, or simply the
size of the file.


--behdad
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