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Section: FSF (1)Updated: March 2002
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NAME
cut - remove sections from each line of filesSYNOPSIS
cut [OPTION]... [FILE]...DESCRIPTION
Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.
- -b, --bytes=LIST
- output only these bytes
- -c, --characters=LIST
- output only these characters
- -d, --delimiter=DELIM
- use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter
- -f, --fields=LIST
- output only these fields
- -n
- (ignored)
- -s, --only-delimited
- do not print lines not containing delimiters
- --output-delimiter=STRING
- use STRING as the output delimiter the default is to use the input delimiter
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
Use one, and only one of -b, -c or -f. Each LIST is made up of one range, or many ranges separated by commas. Each range is one of:
- N
- N'th byte, character or field, counted from 1
- N-
- from N'th byte, character or field, to end of line
- N-M
- from N'th to M'th (included) byte, character or field
- -M
- from first to M'th (included) byte, character or field
The order of bytes, characters or fields in the output will be identical to those in the input. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
AUTHOR
Written by David Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-textutils@gnu.org>.COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for cut is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and cut programs are properly installed at your site, the command- info cut
should give you access to the complete manual.
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