How do you define the 'tab' delimiter in bash?
Here is an example of using cut to break input into fields using a space delimiter, and obtaining the second field.
cut -f2 -d' '
How do i define a delimiter as tab instead of space?
Best Answer
Two ways.
Press Ctrl + V and then Tab to use "verbatim" quoted insert .
cut -f2 -d' ' infile
or write it like this to use ANSI-C quoting .
cut -f2 -d$'\t' infile