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		bewuethr on July 4, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Skip grep, use awk The default FS throws away leading blanks, though, which doesn't happen if you set it explicitly to \s+, so a tiny little bit of magic does go on after all.

cyphar on July 4, 2017 [–]

Fair enough, though ultimately you could emulate it with sed:

    some-cmd | sed -E '{ s/^\s+//g ; s/\s+/ /g }' | cut -f$n

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