Why does `cut -c0` return an error on RHEL6?

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Issue

  • A script runs normally on RHEL5 and fails on RHEL6 with error message: "cut: fields and positions are numbered from 1".

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • coreutils

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