bug#14416: cut -c --output-delimiter stops inserting delimiters : bug?

[Konstantin Weber]

Hello,

today I received a large text file with fixed-length data fields to import them 
into our databases.
I used the mighty cut but had to discover that it stops inserting 
output-delimiters when there are a lot of ranges.

My prompt was:
cut 
-b30-34,37-41,53-82,83-112,113-142,143-148,153-182,233-262,263-292,293-322,323-327,233-352
 --output-delimiter=";" GER0506.dat > GER0506_true.csv

The output only has  the first 7 semicolons of the expected eleven.
I fixed it for my case by running cut a second time (
cut -b1-172,174-202,204-232,234-238,244-263 --output-delimiter=";" 
GER0506_true.csv > GER0506.csv
) but decided to report this behaviour because it seems undesired. Either I get 
output-delmiters (all of them) or not.

Is this a bug?

> cut --version
cut (GNU coreutils) 8.14
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