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From: | Pádraig Brady |
Subject: | Re: say that cut can't handle more than one field demarcator |
Date: | Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:31:35 +0000 |
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On 04/03/10 20:05, address@hidden wrote:
On (info "(coreutils) cut invocation") please add: cut has no way to specify a group of blanks as a field demarcator. If you want that, use perl -a. Also use perl's split if you want regexp demarcators, etc. If that is indeed the case.
Actually using tr from coreutils you can do: tr -s '[:blank:]' '\t' | cut -f5 In fact I thought I had already added that to the info docs. I had intended adding it at least, but obviously I misremembered checking it in. I'll do that very soon. thanks, Pádraig.
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