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It means a contiguous collection of arbitrary white space characters are considered to be a single delimiter. With the parent example it means that column #2 c
by pstuart 7y ago
It means a contiguous collection of arbitrary white space characters are considered to be a single delimiter.
With the parent example it means that column #2 could have any of number whitespaces between it and column #1.
- ggm 7y agoyes. whereas cut, considers ' ' (two spaces) as an instance of a blank column separated by the -d' ' space instance. Its like ,, in CSV being a blank column.