Cut from older coreutils (at least until 7.1) honoured --output-delimiter in combination with -c. Newer coreutils don't, i.e. with the older cut you get
$ echo 12 | cut --output-delimiter=X -c1,2 1X2 And with the newer ones $ echo 12 | cut --output-delimiter=X -c1,2 12 Is this a regression or was this a deliberate change that wasn't documented? Philipp
