bug#12966: cut: Problems with overlapping, open-ended ranges

[Marcel Böhme]

   Hi,
   I found two (semantically related) bugs. One seems to originate in the
   first version. For research purposes, I would appreciate if you could
   confirm that the second was introduced with Coreutils 5.3.0.
   1) The following bug seems to exists "since the beginning".
   $echo 1234567890 | ./cut -b 2-,3,4-4,5,9-
   3590
   $echo 1234567890 | ./cut -b 2-,3,4-4,5,9-10
   234567890
   $echo 1234567890 | ./cut -b 2-10,3,4-4,5,9-
   234567890
   2) Can you kindly confirm that the following bug has been introduced
   with Coreutils 5.3.0, particularly commit
   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=7380cf79
   2aa35b9328519c5f374036d5260704cb ?
   $echo 1234567890 | ./cut -b 2-,3,4-4,5 --output-delimiter="."
   2.34.567890
   $echo 1234567890 | ./cut -b 2-10,3,4-4,5 --output-delimiter="."
   234567890
   Best regards,
    Marcel