DOT-Files/Gentoo/gentooamd/home/user/.tldrc/tldr/pages/common/cut.md

cut

Cut out fields from stdin or files. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/cut-invocation.html.

• Print the fifth character on each line:

{{command}} | cut {{[-c|--characters]}} 5

• Print the fifth to tenth character of each line of the specified file:

cut {{[-c|--characters]}} 5-10 {{path/to/file}}

• Split each line in a file by a delimiter into fields and print fields two and six (default delimiter is TAB):

cut {{[-f|--fields]}} 2,6 {{path/to/file}}

• Split each line by the specified delimiter and print all from the second field onward:

{{command}} | cut {{[-d|--delimiter]}} "{{delimiter}}" {{[-f|--fields]}} 2-

• Use space as a delimiter and print only the first 3 fields:

{{command}} | cut {{[-d|--delimiter]}} " " {{[-f|--fields]}} -3

• Print specific fields of lines that use NUL to terminate lines instead of newlines:

{{find . -print0}} | cut {{[-z|--zero-terminated]}} {{[-d|--delimiter]}} "{{/}}" {{[-f|--fields]}} {{2}}