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@(#)cut.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
$FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/cut/cut.1 167101 2007-02-28 10:13:32Z ru $
.Dd December 21, 2006 .Dt CUT 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm cut .Nd cut out selected portions of each line of a file .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Fl b Ar list .Op Fl n .Op Ar .Nm .Fl c Ar list .Op Ar .Nm .Fl f Ar list .Op Fl d Ar delim .Op Fl s .Op Ar .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility cuts out selected portions of each line (as specified by .Ar list ) from each .Ar file and writes them to the standard output. If no .Ar file arguments are specified, or a file argument is a single dash
q Sq Fl , .Nm reads from the standard input. The items specified by .Ar list can be in terms of column position or in terms of fields delimited by a special character. Column numbering starts from 1.
p The .Ar list option argument is a comma or whitespace separated set of increasing numbers and/or number ranges. Number ranges consist of a number, a dash
q Sq - , and a second number and select the fields or columns from the first number to the second, inclusive. Numbers or number ranges may be preceded by a dash, which selects all fields or columns from 1 to the last number. Numbers or number ranges may be followed by a dash, which selects all fields or columns from the last number to the end of the line. Numbers and number ranges may be repeated, overlapping, and in any order. It is not an error to select fields or columns not present in the input line.
p The options are as follows: l -tag -width indent t Fl b Ar list The .Ar list specifies byte positions. t Fl c Ar list The .Ar list specifies character positions. t Fl d Ar delim Use .Ar delim as the field delimiter character instead of the tab character. t Fl f Ar list The .Ar list specifies fields, separated in the input by the field delimiter character (see the .Fl d option.) Output fields are separated by a single occurrence of the field delimiter character. t Fl n Do not split multi-byte characters. Characters will only be output if at least one byte is selected, and, after a prefix of zero or more unselected bytes, the rest of the bytes that form the character are selected. t Fl s Suppress lines with no field delimiter characters. Unless specified, lines with no delimiters are passed through unmodified. .El .Sh ENVIRONMENT The .Ev LANG , LC_ALL and .Ev LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of .Nm as described in .Xr environ 7 . .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std .Sh EXAMPLES Extract users' login names and shells from the system .Xr passwd 5 file as .Dq name:shell pairs:
p .Dl "cut -d : -f 1,7 /etc/passwd"
p Show the names and login times of the currently logged in users:
p .Dl "who | cut -c 1-16,26-38" .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr colrm 1 , .Xr paste 1 .Sh STANDARDS The .Nm utility conforms to .St -p1003.2-92 . .Sh HISTORY A .Nm command appeared in .Tn AT&T System III x .