Re: cut feature request: treat multiple consecutive delimiters as one

[Andreas Schwab]

Brandon Wood <address@hidden> writes:

> When considering a trivial example,
> $ wc -l *.dat | grep data
> 1107 data_01.dat
>  180 data_02.dat
>  317 data_03.dat
>  295 data_04.dat
>   10 data_05.dat
> $ !! | cut --mult-delim -d " " -f 1,2
> 1107 data_01.dat
> 180 data_02.dat
> 317 data_03.dat
> 295 data_04.dat
> 10 data_05.dat
>
> Another example with a data file,
> $ tail -n 3 data.dat
> AAAA         BBBB         CCCC
> 1111         2222         3333
> XXXX         YYYY         ZZZZ
> $ !! | cut --mult-delim -d " " -f 2
> BBBB
> 2222
> YYYY

You can do that with awk:

$ awk '{print $1,$2}'
$ awk '{print $2}'

Andreas.

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