User Commands                                              CUT(1)



NAME
     cut - remove sections from each line of files

SYNOPSIS
     cut [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
     Print selected parts of lines from  each  FILE  to  standard
     output.

     Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for  short
     options too.

     -b, --bytes=LIST
          select only these bytes

     -c, --characters=LIST
          select only these characters

     -d, --delimiter=DELIM
          use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter

     -f, --fields=LIST
          select only these fields;  also  print  any  line  that
          contains  no  delimiter character, unless the -s option
          is specified

     -n   (ignored)

     --complement
          complement the set of  selected  bytes,  characters  or
          fields.

     -s, --only-delimited
          do not print lines not containing delimiters

     --output-delimiter=STRING
          use STRING as the output delimiter the  default  is  to
          use the input delimiter

     --help
          display this help and exit

     --version
          output version information and exit

     Use one, and only one of -b, -c or -f.  Each LIST is made up
     of  one range, or many ranges separated by commas.  Selected
     input is written in the same order that it is read,  and  is
     written exactly once.  Each range is one of:

     N    N'th byte, character or field, counted from 1



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User Commands                                              CUT(1)



     N-   from N'th byte, character or field, to end of line

     N-M  from N'th to M'th (included) byte, character or field

     -M   from first to M'th (included) byte, character or field

     With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

AUTHOR
     Written by David Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright O 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This is free software.  You may redistribute  copies  of  it
     under   the   terms   of  the  GNU  General  Public  License
     .  There  is  NO  WAR-
     RANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
     The full documentation for cut is maintained  as  a  Texinfo
     manual.  If the info and cut programs are properly installed
     at your site, the command

          info cut

     should give you access to the complete manual.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     
       ATRIBUTE TYPE      ATRIBUTE VALUE  
    
     Availability         SUNWgnu-coreutils 
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted       
    

NOTES
     Source    for    GNU    coreutils    is     available     on
     http:/opensolaris.org.










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