Yes, in awk, conveniently, whitespace means a run of whitespace. It gets a bit verbose in jq for the same effect; but on the other hand, you get slicing - more

Yes, in awk, conveniently, whitespace means a run of whitespace. It gets a bit verbose in jq for the same effect; but on the other hand, you get slicing - more slices than `cut` can give you.