Re: bug in- cut

[Bob Proulx]

Thanks for your report.  And we appreciate the kind words.  But we are
going to need some more information.  First off go to

  http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/

and since you are using the Cygwin Toolset

  http://cygwin.com/faq/

and see what can be applied to your problem.  Then if you think you
have a bug and you are using cygwin go here and read the reporting
guide.  It has good stuff there.

  http://cygwin.com/bugs.html

The information asked for will help the developers debug the problem.
Sorry for the three pointers to go read but there is lots of good
stuff there and I am sure it will speed up the process.

Thanks
Bob

> I just downloaded your wonderful GnuUtils and started working with them.
> It is possible I am just not using it correctly; but when using "cut", I
> cannot seem to get it to output the fields with anything other than the
> input delimiter.  Example, I cut fields 2 & 4 of a comma delimited file and
> when I try to redirect it into a file delimited with a " " (space), I can't
> seem to get it to work.  Somehow I can't get the --output-delimiter=STRING
> to work correctly.  I have tried every way I can imagine and no success.
> Is this a but, or am I just missing something here?  Unfortunately, our
> organization has recently switched from Unix servers to Windows 2000 PC's
> and I am having a hard time working in Windows.  Your programs were an
> answers to Windows curses and I: Thank You Very Much for coming up with
> such a nice set of Unix utilities that will work in our Windows 2000
> environment.     SmileS
> 
> Bill Cecchin - GIS
> USDA-FS Tahoe National Forest
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