cut -d fails when using a multi-byte delimiter

[Tim Rühsen]

Hi,

was just trying to "grep saved *.log|cut -d‘ -f2" on a wget log file and get

cut: the delimiter must be a single character
Try 'cut --help' for more information.

Well, I am in a en_US.UTF-8 locale and that ‘ is a single character for
me (but of course not a single byte).

$ echo -n ‘|od -t x1
0000000 e2 80 98


As a work-around i can use awk, but cut is just so cute and handy :-)

Are there any plans to implement multi-byte support for -d ?

Regards, Tim

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