From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:48:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines with no separators.
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-2_0_15~339
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8e092dca083bdc039f43a2f3ce343c0cedd67700;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines with no separators.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 6d69b1b2f0..4172239bcd 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -3860,7 +3860,7 @@ Do not split multi-byte characters (no-op for now).
 @opindex -s
 @opindex --only-delimited
 For @samp{-f}, do not print lines that do not contain the field separator
-character.
+character.  Normally, any line without a field separator is printed verbatim.
 
 @itemx --output-delimiter=@var{output_delim_string}
 @opindex --output-delimiter