Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!loft386!wbrown
From: wbrown@loft386.UUCP (Wayne Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: cut.c
Summary: Using spaces as field delimiters with cut.c
Message-ID: <584@loft386.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 90 06:02:32 GMT
References: <5067@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Lofty Pursuits, Rapid City, SD USA
Lines: 12

In article <5067@ast.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
> 
> I could not find any combination of -d and -i flags to convince it to consider
> a run of spaces as a separator.

You have to use the -d flag to redefine the delimiter as the space character,
and also use the -i flag to use a run of spaces.  The space must be enclosed
in quotes.  Try this :
	cut -i -d' ' -f3 filename
to extract the third field.

Wayne Brown		uunet!loft386!ledgepc!wayne