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How can I use column to delimit on tabs and not spaces?

I'd like to use Unix column to format some text. I have fields delimited by tabs, but within each field there are also spaces. column delimits on white space (tabs and spaces). How can I make column ...
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intersection of two files according to the first column

I have two files in file A, there are sequence_numbers in the other file B, there are many columns, and the first column is sequnce numbers, I want to get a files with all the lines in the B with the ...
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Is there a simple command for outputting tab-delimited columns in bash?

E.g. I have a file (produced with echo -e "var1\tvar2\t\var3\tvar4" > foo) that are output (in bash): $ cat foo case elems meshing nlsys uniform 2350 0.076662 2.78 non-conformal ...
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Linux sort second last column

I would like know how to sort the second last column ? It has the word "days=" in front of the number. I'm able to get the column with awk '{print $(NF-1)}', but sorting is wrong. 457000 ...