I surely wish that the "cut" utility would make use of regular expressions
[regexp(5)] as field delimeters. So many times I have to use "awk" where "cut"
would be simpler and quicker, but my fields are separated by more than one
character. (Awk allows regexps in the -F switch.) Something like:
cut -d"[\t ,]+" -f1-3 myfile
would make "cut" infinitely more useful. The example above would tell "cut"
that the fields are delimited by 1 or more consecutive spaces and/or tabs and/or
commas.
Mark
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