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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-06-02 21:23:39 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-06-02 21:23:39 +0000
commit2cd87c65621f39f7d8e65df8a7102b90f44a3564 (patch)
treee95da4d7c0820881aab0608da738dcee304df6fd
parentd53e7ba8a1f0ee9203262f4cc2926faabe6fada2 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-2cd87c65621f39f7d8e65df8a7102b90f44a3564.tar.xz
(cut invocation): Clarify what --output-delimiter=STR
does with byte/character ranges.
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 9e8f2b63f..193d5f1f2 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -4428,7 +4428,8 @@ With @option{-f}, output fields are separated by @var{output_delim_string}.
The default with @option{-f} is to use the input delimiter.
When using @option{-b} or @option{-c} to select ranges of byte or
character offsets (as opposed to ranges of fields),
-output @var{output_delim_string} between ranges of selected bytes.
+output @var{output_delim_string} between non-overlapping
+ranges of selected bytes.
@end table