Hi, On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:23 AM, pancake <panc...@youterm.com> wrote: > The only thing i miss in cut is mutichar word split. Which is properly > handled by awk. For example: > > If a line is splitted by multiple spaces or a mix of tabs and spaces it is > not handled right by cut. But awk does the job.
This is something that can be fixed with a pipe through tr before your pipe through cut. Use tr to squeeze the multiple spaces down to a single one or translate the spaces/tabs into whichever whitespace you prefer.
