@jtgi
I also really like `cut`.
I used it often for log processing like this, e.g.
```
$ cat nginx_access | grep 500 | cut -d " " -f 1,3
500 /frames/1
500 /frames/2
...
$ cat nginx_access | grep 500 | cut -d " " -f 1,3 | sort | uniq -c
10 500 /frames/1
22 500 /frames/2
...
```
It accepts any delimeter via (-d).