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

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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*]').

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

$ cat text.txt | tr -s " " " " | cut -d " " -f 4
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    < text.txt tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f 4 is shorter: it leaves out the unnecessary second argument to tr and the UUOC.
    – jw013
    Commented Feb 14, 2012 at 16:52

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