As with someone else's question: have you considered awk?:
awk -e '{print $1}'
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 awesome-dave1 at juno.com wrote:
> Hello,
> Got probably a simple question, one whose answer is probably staring me
> in the face. I'm writing a script that outputs stopped or aborted jobs in
> a mailq. The purpose is to grab field one, the queue ID field then place
> that info in a file. The problem is i can grab the first field, but cut
> takes the entire line. I need to know how to make cut split on a space?
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
>
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