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CUT
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: GNU Text Utilities
Index NAME
cut - remove sections from each line of files
SYNOPSIS
cut{-b byte-list, --bytes=byte-list} [-n] [--help] [--version] [file...]
cut{-c character-list, --characters=character-list}[--help] [--version] [file...]
cut{-f field-list, --fields=field-list} [-d delim] [-s][--delimiter=delim] [--only-delimited] [--help] [--version] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be inaccurateor incomplete. The Texinfo documentation is now the authoritative source.
This manual pagedocuments the GNU version ofcut.cutprints sections of each line of each input file, or the standardinput if no files are given. A file name of `-' means standard input.Which sections are printed is selected by the options.
OPTIONS
The
byte-list,
character-list,and
field-listare one or more numbers or ranges (two numbers separated by a dash)separated by commas. The first byte, character, and field arenumbered 1. Incomplete ranges may be given: `-m' means`1-m'; `n-' means `n' through end of line or last field.
- -b, --bytes byte-list
- Print only the bytes in positions listed inbyte-list.Tabs and backspaces are treated like any other character; they take up1 byte.
- -c, --characters character-list
- Print only characters in positions listed incharacter-list.The same as -b for now, but internationalization will change that.Tabs and backspaces are treated like any other character; they take up1 character.
- -f, --fields field-list
- Print only the fields listed infield-list.Fields are separated by a TAB by default.
- -d, --delimiter delim
- For -f, fields are separated by the first character indeliminstead of by TAB.
- -n
- Do not split multibyte characters (no-op for now).
- -s, --only-delimited
- For -f, do not print lines that do not contain the field separatorcharacter.
- --help
- Print a usage message and exit with a status code indicating success.
- --version
- Print version information on standard output then exit.
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- OPTIONS
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