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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: cut.c
Message-ID: <5067@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 9 Jan 90 15:40:59 GMT
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Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
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I treid using cut yesterday to extract the third column from a crc listing
like this:

65261   8510 alloc.c
09176   7432 break.c
53152    990 const.h

I could not find any combination of -d and -i flags to convince it to consider
a run of spaces as a separator.  I eventually did it with columns, but I
think it ought to work with fields as well.  Does anyone (e.g., the author)
know how to do this?

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)