Every time I go to use awk for something I always think, 'I feel like I would be able to do this with cut so much more easily, but I also know that I always feel like that, but am never able to get cut to actually do what I want.' Despite feeling that way, I usually optimistically go spend 30 minutes trying to get cut to do something simple like give me a specific column from the output of ps aux. But it's just 30 minutes of banging my head against the keyboard, and it always reinforces my original strategy, which is to use awk for everything and never, ever use cut.