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Brilliant deduction gentlemen.

1) I originally did the cut/paste with IE8 into Reflections 14 telnet which somehow sorted the mess and gave me the correct character.

2) Now if I use IE8 and...

fwiw, I get the same results as Scrutinzer on Windows 7 to RHEL or Solaris (putty).

Right now, if I cut and paste this:
echo hello:boss | cut -d: -f2
I do not get the error.

If I cut-and-paste this:
echo hello:boss | cut -d: -f2
I do get the error.

I have tried this on...

@Scrutinizer
I can't reproduce that effect. Perhaps your own computer or the O/P's is using Unicode not ASCII and my cut/paste is correcting the character? Or, as you suggest the O/P has used a...

I cut-and-pasted some of the code and to my surprise the Unix "cut"-command was giving me a similar error. Things looked kinda spooky for a moment:
$ echo hello:boss | cut -d: -f2
boss
$ echo...

Interestingly, the POSIX specification also says this:
SYNOPSIS

cut -b list [-n] [file...]

cut -c list [file...]

cut -f list [-d delim] [-s] [file...]

cut...

Please post the current version of the script and any error messages verbatim.

Please post the O/S version, blotting anything confidential with X's,
uname -a

Well spotted Scrutinizer. My cut...

Hi, try flipping "-f1" and "-d%" around

$ cut
usage: cut -b list [-n] [file ...]
cut -c list [file ...]
cut -f list [-s] [-d delim] [file ...]

A few minor corrections.
1) Lose the $ from $output on the "while read" line. We only have the $ when referring to the value of a variable.
2) Put double quotes round your string variable $output....

Reference agama's point 3.

You can use a single backslash at the end of the line to make the two lines be read as one line by the Shell.
Don't forget the email address on the "mail" line. If you...

A few things I noticed:

1) you need to read into a variable (I assume output). The syntax would be something like command | while read output. Possibly this is a cut/past error when sharing your...