From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 07:08:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (usage): Note that when using -f, lines with no delimiters are also printed.
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0z~26
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=95ed06eb099d3175758b70189dccf9588cecd0a8;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(usage): Note that when using -f, lines with no delimiters are also printed.
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diff --git a/src/cut.c b/src/cut.c
index d8e75a056b..c613d3878f 100644
--- a/src/cut.c
+++ b/src/cut.c
@@ -174,7 +174,9 @@ Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.\n\
   -b, --bytes=LIST        output only these bytes\n\
   -c, --characters=LIST   output only these characters\n\
   -d, --delimiter=DELIM   use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter\n\
-  -f, --fields=LIST       output only these fields\n\
+  -f, --fields=LIST       output only these fields;  also print any line\n\
+                            that contains no delimiter character, unless\n\
+                            the -s option is specified\n\
   -n                      (ignored)\n\
   -s, --only-delimited    do not print lines not containing delimiters\n\
       --output-delimiter=STRING  use STRING as the output delimiter\n\