[DragonFlyBSD - Bug #2385] cut: "-" doesn't work for standard input

[Tim Darby via Redmine]

Issue #2385 has been updated by Tim Darby.


Thanks, John.  What's wrong with "-w"?
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Bug #2385: cut: "-" doesn't work for standard input
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2385

Author: Tim Darby
Status: Resolved
Priority: Low
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 


The man page for cut states that you can supply a - in place of the filename to read from standard input, but it doesn't work:

> echo foo bar | cut -w -f 1 -
cut: -: No such file or directory

However, this does:

> echo foo bar | cut -w -f 1
foo



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