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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-05-22 14:25:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-05-22 18:47:17 +0200 |
| commit | a6a447fc58a01598682f0914f978d0a3c1cfc4dc (patch) | |
| tree | 381e6cc2fecc1d4244daf27a8d2a67eccaf7c0df /NEWS | |
| parent | ae5717158f1b9f31b986b0f4416582684039ec55 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-a6a447fc58a01598682f0914f978d0a3c1cfc4dc.tar.xz | |
cut: diagnose a range starting with 0 (-f 0-2) as invalid, and
give a better diagnostic for a field-number/offset of 0.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
* src/cut.c (ADD_RANGE_PAIR): Add an explicit check for 0.
Based on a patch from James Youngman.
* tests/misc/cut: Add tests for the above.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes + cut now diagnoses a range starting with zero (e.g., -f 0-2) as invalid; + before, it would treat it as if it started with 1 (-f 1-2). + "cut -f 2-0" now fails; before, it was equivalent to "cut -f 2-" cut now diagnoses the '-' in "cut -f -" as an invalid range, rather |