title: How to use tab as delimiter in this cut command?
body: <pre><code>cut -f2 words.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr &gt; counted.txt
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  <p>This command selects the column from the file, count each entry and sort based on frequency, and then output the result to counted.txt, ranked by frequencies, as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    1 71321 good
      2 14945 bad
      3 5891 nice
      4 4641 pretty
      5 4494 slow
      6 3671 quick
      ...
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  <p>However, this output delimiter is a white space , and I want a tab as delimiter. I tried the following with --output-delimiter:</p>
  
  <pre><code>cut -f2 --output-delimiter='\t' words.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr &gt; counted.txt 
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  <p>But it reports an error, invalid option.</p>
  
  <p>How to make the output delimiter a tab?</p>