Well, sure. I said it did character ranges so you don't have to use fields.
What were you expecting? That your character ranges in ls would match mine?
What were you expecting? That your character ranges in ls would match mine?
I would expect the command to work in any directory. Try a few different directories on your computer and you'll see that it won't work in some of them.
But ... why expect that? That's not what "character ranges" mean.
I mean, I was only trying to clarify that `cut` is not limited to fields only.