NAME

cut — cut each line with selected characters/fields

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

cut reads lines from each each file or if unspecified standard input, and cuts out bytes (-b), characters (-c), or character-delimited fields (-f).

The list argument is a comma-separated list of 1-based ranges, where:

‘n-’

Selects from ‘n’ to the end of line.

‘n’

Selects ‘n’

‘n-m’

Selects from ‘n’ to ‘m’.

‘-m’

Selects from start of the line to ‘m’.

‘1,2,3’

is equivalent to ‘1-3’

OPTIONS

-b list

Cut bytes based on list.

-c list

Cut codepoints based on list.

-d delim

Set the field delimiter to the character delim, if an empty string is passed, then NULL is used as separator. (default: \t)

-f list

Cut fields based on list.

-n

Do not split codepoints. (Currently unsupported in this implementation)

-s

Suppress lines with no delimiter characters, otherwise whole delimiter-less lines are printed as-is.

-z

Use NULL as line separator instead of newline.

EXIT STATUS

The cut utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

STANDARDS

Except for the lack of support for -n, cut should be compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 (“POSIX.1”) specification.

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>