NAME

cut - Extract sections from each line of files.

SYNOPSIS

cut OPTION... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

Extract sections from each line of files.

OPTIONS

-b, --bytes <LIST>

extract bytes listed in LIST

-c, --characters <LIST>

extract characters listed in LIST

-d, --delimiter <DELIM>

use DELIM as field separator (default: Tab)

-w, --whitespace-delimited[=<trimmed>]

use any whitespace (Space/Tab) as delimiter; ignore leading and trailing blanks with 'trimmed'

Possible values:

-f, --fields <LIST>

extract fields listed in LIST

-F <LIST>

like -f, but merge adjacent delimiters; the delimiter defaults to whitespace and the output delimiter to a space

--complement

invert selection: print all columns except the specified ones

-s, --only-delimited

suppress lines that do not contain the delimiter

-z, --zero-terminated

use NULL (\0) instead of newline as line terminator

-O, --output-delimiter <NEW_DELIM>

replace input delimiter with NEW_DELIM in output

-n, --no-partial

with -b, do not output partial multi-byte characters

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

EXTRA

If no FILE is specified, reads from stdin. Use '-' as a FILE argument to include stdin.

LIST is a comma-separated list of numbers or ranges:

N only column N
N- columns N through the end of the line
N-M columns N through M
-M columns 1 through M

Examples:

cut -f 2,5-7 file.txt extract fields 2, 5, 6, and 7
cut -f 3- file.txt extract field 3 to the end of the line
cut --complement -f 4-6 file.txt extract all fields except 4, 5, and 6
cut -d',' -f1 file.csv extract first field from a CSV

VERSION

v(uutils coreutils) 0.11.0