Examples
Assuming a file named file containing the lines:
foo:bar:baz:qux:quux one:two:three:four:five:six:seven alpha:beta:gamma:delta:epsilon:zeta:eta:teta:iota:kappa:lambda:mu the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogTo output the fourth through tenth characters of each line:
% cut -c 4-10 fileThis gives the output:
:bar:ba :two:th ha:beta quickTo output the fifth field through the end of the line of each line using the colon character as the field delimiter:
% cut -d ":" -f 5- fileThis gives the output:
quux five:six:seven epsilon:zeta:eta:teta:iota:kappa:lambda:mu the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog(note that because the colon character is not found in the last line the entire line is shown)
Option -d specified a single character delimiter (in the example above it is a colon) which serves as field separator. option -f which specifies range of fields included in the output (here fields range from five till the end ). Option -d presuppose usage of option -f.
To output the third field of each line using space as the field delimiter:
% cut -d " " -f 3 fileThis gives the output:
foo:bar:baz:qux:quux one:two:three:four:five:six:seven alpha:beta:gamma:delta:epsilon:zeta:eta:teta:iota:kappa:lambda:mu brown(Note that because the space character is not found in the first three lines these entire lines are shown.)
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