2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/coreutils/cut.c b/coreutils/cut.c
index e12c56732..e33626d7f 100644
--- a/coreutils/cut.c
+++ b/coreutils/cut.c
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ int cut_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
 #endif
         if (!odelim)
                 odelim = (opt & OPT_REGEX) ? " " : delim;
-        if (!delim || !*delim)
+        if (!delim)
                 delim = (opt & OPT_REGEX) ? "[[:space:]]+" : "\t";
 
 //      argc -= optind;
diff --git a/testsuite/cut.tests b/testsuite/cut.tests
index 8da390cd7..52d05fde3 100755
--- a/testsuite/cut.tests
+++ b/testsuite/cut.tests
@@ -142,4 +142,16 @@ testing "cut -dNEWLINE --output-delimiter EMPTY_INPUT" \
         "" \
         "" ""
 
+# This seems to work as if delimiter is never found.
+# We test here that -d '' does *not* operate as if there was no -d
+# and delimiter has defaulted to TAB:
+testing "cut -d EMPTY" \
+        "cut -d '' -f2-" \
+        "1 2\t3 4 5\n" \
+        "" "1 2\t3 4 5\n"
+testing "cut -d EMPTY -s" \
+        "cut -d '' -f2- -s" \
+        "" \
+        "" "1 2\t3 4 5\n"
+
 exit $FAILCOUNT