Name
cut -(b|c|f)range
[options
] [files
] — coreutils
Synopsis
/usr/bin
stdin stdout - file -- opt --help --version
The cut
command extracts columns of text from files. A “column” is defined either by character offsets (e.g., the nineteenth character of each line):
$ cut -c19 myfile
by byte offsets (which are often the same as characters, unless you have multibyte characters in your language):
$ cut -b19 myfile
or by delimited fields (e.g., the fifth field in each line of a comma-delimited file):
$ cut -d, -f5 myfile
You aren’t limited to printing a single column: you can provide a range (3–16), a comma-separated sequence (3,4,5,6,8,16), or both (3,4,8-16). For ranges, if you omit the first number (–16), a 1 is assumed (1–16); if you omit the last number (5–), the end of line is used.
Useful options | |
| Use character |
| Use character |
| Suppress (don’t print) lines that don’t contain the delimiter character. |
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