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Subject: [bug#30053] [PATCH 1/3] Improve appearance of tabular output.
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From: Steve Sprang <steve.sprang@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:56:28 -0800
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 6:16 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Again a matter of taste, but =E2=80=98cut=E2=80=99 looks to me both easie=
r and simpler
> than awk (since it=E2=80=99s a full language).
>
> But anyway, as Danny write, if your patches retain tabs (in addition to
> spaces), presumably it=E2=80=99s OK even for those of us who prefer =E2=
=80=98cut=E2=80=99,
> right?

If the tab is retained I think most uses of 'cut' keep working. The
only exception I'm aware of is this:

$ guix build --quiet --keep-going \
        `guix package -A | cut -f1,2 --output-delimiter=3D@`

Since 'cut' splits on the tab you end up retaining the padding spaces
from field 1 resulting in, say, "guile      @2.2.3" instead of the
desired "guile@2.2.3".

-Steve