> [...] you need to flatten the whitespace first with sed by "flatten the wh...

		jsrn on Oct 15, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: This must already exist > [...] you need to flatten the whitespace first with sed by "flatten the whitespace" do you mean turning many spaces into one space? If so, I have always used tr with the -s (squeeze) option for that: `$ echo "one two three" \| tr -s " " \| cut -d " " -f 3 three`

Didn't know about that option, I always did it with sed. Thanks! :)