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		mmt on Sept 10, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't MAWK AWK - the fastest and most elegant big ... doesn't work if it's any-amount-of-whitespace separated

obecalp on Sept 10, 2009 [–]

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mmt on Sept 16, 2009 | [–]

Nope: echo 'a b' | cut -d' ' -f2 a b

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