Re: Command CUT

[Pádraig Brady]

André Nunes wrote:
> Hey man!!! how are you??
> 
> i don't understand the difference of command CUT with the parammeter "-b"
> and "-c".
> 
> Please, you can help me??
> 
> thank you very much!!


No difference at present in the official coreutils.
In future (or maybe specific to your distribution),
there is a difference in the presence of multi byte characters.

$ echo "Pádraig" | cut -b2 | hd
000000 c3 0a                                            >..<
000002

$ echo "Pádraig" | cut -c2 | hd
000000 c3 a1 0a                                         >...<
000003