How do you represent a field delimeter that is a space???


 
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Old 05-03-2003
How do you represent a field delimeter that is a space???

you know like if you want to work on a specified field in the password file. you would specify the field your interested in my telling the script that the fields are separated by a colon. now, my problem is that I want to specify a field that is not separated by a colon but by a space or tab using either awk or sed.
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Old 05-04-2003
Using awk, can do the following to represent a space as a delimiter.

awk -F" " {print some stuff}
 
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