RE: PATCH -- new option for cut(1) -- whitespace delimited fields

[Padraig Brady]

> As discussed previously on this list
> (http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-textutils/2002-May/001215.html),
> it would be convenient if cut(1) would accept arbitrary amounts of
> whitespace as a field delimiter.

Well you could put the data through tr -s ' '
beforehand? Actually I'm working on a major
revamp in this area across all of textutils,
so that they all have the same parameters
for field selection and record and field
seperators (which could be regular expressions
(well see)). btw adding new short options
is deprecated AFAICT.

cheers,
Padraig.