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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index fcee33618..3e7a69868 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -5318,7 +5318,13 @@ of selected bytes. Select for printing only the fields listed in @var{field-list}. Fields are separated by a TAB character by default. Also print any line that contains no delimiter character, unless the -@option{--only-delimited} (@option{-s}) option is specified +@option{--only-delimited} (@option{-s}) option is specified. +Note @command{cut} does not support specifying runs of whitespace as a +delimiter, so to achieve that common functionality one can pre-process +with @command{tr} like: +@example +tr -s '[:blank:]' '\t' | cut -f@dots{} +@end example @item -d @var{input_delim_byte} @itemx --delimiter=@var{input_delim_byte} |