what is the benefit of --squeeze-repeats in tr command

Question

What is the benefit of -s or --squeeze-repeats when we use tr? What practical usage?

Answer 1

The GNU coreutils manual gives some example applications such as collapsing multiple newlines into one (tr -s '\n'), or putting each word on its own line while removing punctuation at the same time (tr -cs '[:alnum:]' '[\n*]').

Answer 2

How to make the 'cut' command treat several sequential delimiters as one?

$ cat text.txt | tr -s " " " " | cut -d " " -f 4