CUT(1) General Commands Manual CUT(1) (NAME) cut - . (SYNOPSIS) cut OPTION... [FILE]... (DESCRIPTION) . (OPTIONS) -b, --bytes LIST -c, --characters LIST -d, --delimiter DELIM (: Tab) -w, --whitespace-delimited[=] (Space/Tab) 'trimmed' : o trimmed -f, --fields LIST -F -f (whitespace) (space) --complement : -s, --only-delimited -z, --zero-terminated NULL (\0) -O, --output-delimiter NEW_DELIM -n, --no-partial -b -h, --help -V, --version (EXTRA) FILE (stdin) . stdin '-' FILE . LIST : N N N- N N-M N M -M M : cut -f 2,5-7 file.txt cut -f 3- file.txt cut --complement -f 4-6 file.txt cut -d',' -f1 file.csv CSV (VERSION) v(uutils coreutils) 0.11.0 2026-09-01 CUT(1)