CUT(1)                      General Commands Manual                     CUT(1)

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:

                     o trimmed

       -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

                                  2026-09-01                            CUT(1)