(cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines with no separators.
authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:48:21 +0000 (08:48 +0000)
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:48:21 +0000 (08:48 +0000)
doc/coreutils.texi

index 6d69b1b..4172239 100644 (file)
@@ -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