"Does `cut -f2` not work?" As others have pointed out, no. It should! (Said the guy sitting comfortably in front of his supercomputer cluster in 2020. No, I do

"Does `cut -f2` not work?" As others have pointed out, no. It should! (Said the guy sitting comfortably in front of his supercomputer cluster in 2020. No, I don't do HPC or anything; everything's a supercomputer by the time that cut was written's standards.) But it doesn't. Going out on a limb, it's just too old. Cut comes from a world of fixed-length fields. Arguably it's not really a "unix" tool in that sense. "highly recommend picking up some of the basics" I have, that's the other 10%. I've done non-trivial things with it... well... non-trivial by "what I've typed on the shell" standards, not non-trivial by "this is a program" standards.