I usually pipe through a whitespace-to-single-tab command. So echo '1 2 3 4' | sp2tab | cut -f2 would be equivalent to echo '1 2 3 4' | awk '{print $2}' but quicker to write.
I usually pipe through a whitespace-to-single-tab command. So echo '1 2 3 4' | sp2tab | cut -f2 would be equivalent to echo '1 2 3 4' | awk '{print $2}' but quicker to write.