Re: [dev] [PATCH] sbase: add cut

From: hiro <23hiro_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:33:04 +0200

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 <rmmullen_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:23 AM, pancake <pancake_AT_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.
>
>
Received on Wed Aug 01 2012 - 16:33:04 CEST