Top "Cut" questions

A Unix shell command that breaks input into fields, which can be selected for output, based on a delimiter.

cut: can we set multiple spaces as the delimiter?

I have text like this: word1 word2 word3 word4 There may be more than one space between a pair of …

bash shell cut
How to use regex with cut at the command line?

I have some output like this from ls -alth: drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170B Aug 3 2016 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 70B Aug 3 2016 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 …

sed centos cut