title: Cut command with delimiter Control-A
body: <p>I am trying to get some columns from file1 to file2 using cut command with delimiter Control A.</p>
  
  <p>This is what I tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>cut -d^A -f2-8 a.dat &gt; b.dat
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If my records are like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>A^AB^AC^AD^AE^AF^AG^AH^A$
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>my command gives:</p>
  
  <pre><code>AB^AC^AD^AE^AF^AG^AH
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is my command wrong or am I putting the delimiter in a wrong way?</p>
  
  <p>So it leaves Control-A's A in the starting point. </p>