title: How to use cut with multiple character delimiter in Unix?
body: <p>My file looks like this</p>
  <pre><code>abc ||| xyz ||| foo bar
  hello world ||| spam ham jam ||| blah blah
  </code></pre>
  <p>I want to extract a specific column, e.g. I could have done:</p>
  <pre><code>sed 's/\s|||\s/\\t/g' file | cut -f1
  </code></pre>
  <p>But is there another way of doing that?</p>