Re: say that cut can't handle more than one field demarcator

[Pádraig Brady]

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.