bug#20928: cut (v. 8.21), using -f option with a single column

[Stephane Chazelas]

2015-06-29 17:25:11 +0100, Pádraig Brady:
[...]
> > $ printf '%s\n' a:b c d:e | paste -d: - /dev/null | cut -d: -f2
> > b
> > 
> > e
> 
> Good point. Or to better support field ranges:
> 
> $ printf '%s\n' a:b c d:e | sed 's/^[^:]*$/&:/' | cut -d: -f2-
> b
> 
> e
[...]

Maybe better as:

$ printf '%b\n' a:b 'P\0341draig' d:e | sed '/:/!s/$/:/' | cut -d: -f2-

so it also works on lines that contain invalid characters.

-- 
Stephane