Fix PR 40214 from Arto Huusko -- field delimiter is not always <TAB>.

Wording from OpenBSD, forwarded by jmc@openbsd.
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.\" $NetBSD: cut.1,v 1.14 2006/07/31 09:39:59 jnemeth Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: cut.1,v 1.15 2008/12/21 18:13:07 wiz Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" @(#)cut.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.Dd July 31, 2006
.Dd December 21, 2008
.Dt CUT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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The items specified by
.Ar list
can be in terms of column position or in terms of fields delimited
by a special character. Column numbering starts from 1.
by a special character.
Column numbering starts from 1.
.Pp
.Ar List
is a comma or whitespace separated set of increasing numbers and/or
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.It Fl d Ar string
Use the first character of
.Ar string
as the field delimiter character instead of the tab character.
as the field delimiter character.
The default is the
.Aq TAB
character.
.It Fl f Ar list
The
.Ar list
specifies fields, delimited in the input by a single tab character.
Output fields are separated by a single tab character.
specifies fields, separated by the field delimiter character.
The selected fields are output,
separated by the field delimiter character.
.It Fl n
Do not split multi-byte characters.
.It Fl s