CUT

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 inaccurate or incomplete. The Texinfo documentation is now the authoritative source.

This manual page documents the GNU version of cut. cut prints sections of each line of each input file, or the standard input 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-list are one or more numbers or ranges (two numbers separated by a dash) separated by commas. The first byte, character, and field are numbered 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 in byte-list. Tabs and backspaces are treated like any other character; they take up 1 byte.

-c, --characters character-list

Print only characters in positions listed in character-list. The same as -b for now, but internationalization will change that. Tabs and backspaces are treated like any other character; they take up 1 character.

-f, --fields field-list

Print only the fields listed in field-list. Fields are separated by a TAB by default.

-d, --delimiter delim

For -f, fields are separated by the first character in delim instead of by TAB.

-s, --only-delimited

For -f, do not print lines that do not contain the field separator character.

--version

Print version information on standard output then exit.