Name
cut
Synopsis
cutoptions
[files
]
Selects a list of columns or fields from one or more files. Either
-c
or -f
must be specified.
list is a sequence of integers. Use a comma
between separate values and a hyphen to specify a range (e.g.,
1-10,15,20
or 50-
). See also
paste
and join
.
Options
-
-b
list
This list specifies byte positions, not character positions. This is important when multibyte characters are used. With this option, lines should be 1023 bytes or less in size.
-
-c
list
Cut the character positions identified in list.
-
-d
c
Use with
-f
to specify field delimiter as character c (default is tab); special characters (e.g., a space) must be quoted.-
-f
list
Cut the fields identified in list.
-
-n
Do not split characters. When used with
-b
,cut
doesn’t split multibyte characters.-
-s
Use with
-f
to suppress lines without delimiters.
Examples
Display only ping
times while
ping
ing a host:
ping 192.168.10.58 | cut -sd= -f4
Find out who is logged on, but list only login names:
who | cut -d" " -f1
Cut characters in the fourth column of file, and paste them back as the first column in the same file. Send the results to standard output:
cut -c4
file
| paste -
file
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