sometimes I only respond to the suckless becaus I want to annoy you with my top-posts, although I have nothing to say whatsoever.
On 8/1/12, Ryan Mullen <rmmul...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > >
