[Bug 252896] usr.bin/cut when used with -w will replace first delimiter with \t delimter

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            Bug ID: 252896
           Summary: usr.bin/cut when used with -w will replace first
                    delimiter with \t delimter
           Product: Base System
           Version: 12.1-RELEASE
          Hardware: amd64
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: antispam007 at mac.com

It seems that cut is replacing Space Char with a Tab Char when you use the
special function -w for delimiters

Fast proof could be a 
     ls -al | cut -w -f x- (where x the field number)
you will get someting like
     filed-x <TAB> field-x+1 <SPC> field-x+2 <SPC> ...
instead of 
     filed-x <SPC> field-x+1 <SPC> field-x+2 <SPC> ...

You could verify it with hd(1) where you see 09 for <TAB> and <20> for SPC

Expected behaviour would be, that cut is not touching/changing the field
delimiter

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