Re: "cut" does not work on multiple files.

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden writes:

> ... (coreutils) 4.5.3 ...
> % cut \226d\224 \223 \226f1 /etc/hosts /etc/hosts

It looks like there is a character-set problem of some sort with your
email client.  The bytes I've written "\226" etc above were actually
single bytes in your message as received here: its Content-Type header
line claimed that the message body is iso-8859-1, but those aren't
valid iso-8859-1 characters.  You probably want to fix this sometime
soon.

Anyway, I'll assume you meant to write this:

cut -d' ' -f1 /etc/hosts /etc/hosts

> I would expect both files to be processed, and have results from both.

That's what I get with coreutils 5.2.1 'cut'.  Perhaps the bug has
been fixed since 4.5.3?