Wrappers for CUT and SORT treat consecutive whitespaces as field separator

.bashrc

cuttor() {
  local cutopts files
  declare -a cutopts
  declare -a files 
  while [[ $# -gt 0 ]];do
	case "$1" in
	  -f) shift; cutopts+=(-f "$1") ;;
	  -f?*) cutopts+=("$1") ;;
	  *) files+=("$1") ;;
	esac
	shift
  done
  sed 's/^[[:space:]]*//;
	  s/[[:space:]]*$//;
	  s/[[:space:]][[:space:]]*/'$'\x1f''/g' "${files[@]}" |
  cut -d$'\x1f' "${cutopts[@]}" |
  tr $'\x1f' "${ORS:-$'\t'}"
}

sorttor() {
  local sortopts files k
  declare -a sortopts
  declare -a files
  while [[ $# -ne 0 ]];do
	case "$1" in
	  -b|-d|-f|-g|-i|-M|-n|-r|-c|-m|-s|-u|--ignore-leading-blanks|--dictionary-order|--ignore-case|--general-numeric-sort|--ignore-nonprinting|--month-sort|--numeric-sort|--reverse|--check|--merge|--stable|--unique|-k?*|-o?*|-S?*|-T?*|--key=?*|--output=?*|--buffer-size=?*|--temporary-directory=?*)
		sortopts+=("$1")
		;;
	  -k|-o|-S|-T|--key|--output|--buffer-size|--temporary-directory)
		k=$1
		shift
		sortopts+=($k "$1")
		;;
	  -d) shift ;;
	  -d?*) : ;;
	  --help) sort --help; return 0 ;;
	  *) files+=("$1") ;;
	esac
	shift
  done
  sed 's/^[[:space:]]*//;s/[[:space:]]*$//;
  s/[[:space:]][[:space:]]*/'$'\x1f''/g' "${files[@]}" |
  sort -t$'\x1f' "${sortopts[@]}" |
  tr $'\x1f' "${ORS:-$'\t'}"
}