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    good work. youll find the same kind of comments in GNU's tr docs as well. and even tar unless i misremember. i guess its a big project. Commented Oct 23, 2014 at 8:42
  • Is there any workaround for unicode probelm in cut? For example, where is it possible to download the sources for patched cut? Or would it be more easier to use another utility? (grep solution below does not work smoothly with ranges e.g. 5-8,44-49) Commented Jan 31, 2018 at 0:11
  • see this 2017 article, sub-titled ”Random notes and pointers regarding the on-going effort to add multibyte and unicode support in GNU Coreutils“: crashcourse.housegordon.org/coreutils-multibyte-support.html Commented Dec 12, 2018 at 14:29
  • you can find some alternatives to cut -c here: superuser.com/questions/506164/… Commented Dec 12, 2018 at 14:32