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 line that contains
no delimiter character, unless the -s option is specified
- -n
- (ignored)
- --complement
- complement the set of selected bytes, characters or
fields
- -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. Selected input is written in
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 M. Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS¶
Report cut bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <
http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report cut translation bugs to <
http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL
version 3 or later <
http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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 coreutils 'cut invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
