Re: cut -d fails when using a multi-byte delimiter

[Tim Rühsen]

Hi Eric,

I assume that you submitted your patches to this mailing list as
described in [1] ? That's basically 'git format-patch' output.

At least one of the maintainers should have give you some feedback...

Regards, Tim

On 3/26/19 11:02 PM, Eric Fischer wrote:
> I fixed this in
> https://github.com/ericfischer/coreutils/commit/093e08f91318889d7159fa8ce6afa74650b66ea3
> but
> it and the rest of my multibyte fixes have been sitting unmerged for a year.
> 
> Eric
> 
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 7:23 AM Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> 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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