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CUT

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2007
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NAME

cut - remove sections from each line of files

SYNOPSIS

cut[OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-b, --bytes=LIST: select only these bytes
-c, --characters=LIST: select only these characters
-d, --delimiter=DELIM: use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter
-f, --fields=LIST: select only these fields; also print any linethat contains no delimiter character, unlessthe -s option is specified
-n: with -b: don't split multibyte characters
--complement: complement the set of selected bytes, charactersor fields.
-s, --only-delimited: do not print lines not containing delimiters
--output-delimiter=STRING: use STRING as the output delimiterthe 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 onerange, or many ranges separated by commas. Selected input is writtenin the same order that it is read, and is written exactly once.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

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-coreutilsAATTgnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms ofthe GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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