NAME

       cut - Prints specified byte or field columns from each line of stdin or the input files

SYNOPSIS

       cut    [-b|--bytes]    [-c|--characters]    [-d|--delimiter]    [-w    ]   [-f|--fields]   [--complement]
       [-s|--only-delimited] [-z|--zero-terminated] [--output-delimiter] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [file]

DESCRIPTION

       Prints specified byte or field columns from each line of stdin or the input files

OPTIONS

       -b, --bytes=LIST
              filter byte columns from the input source

       -c, --characters=LIST
              alias for character mode

       -d, --delimiter=DELIM
              specify the delimiter character that separates fields in the input source. Defaults to Tab.

       -w     Use any number of whitespace (Space,  Tab)  to  separate  fields  in  the  input  source  (FreeBSD
              extension).

       -f, --fields=LIST
              filter field columns from the input source

       --complement
              invert the filter - instead of displaying only the filtered columns, display all but those columns

       -s, --only-delimited
              in field mode, only print lines which contain the delimiter

       -z, --zero-terminated
              instead of filtering columns based on line, filter columns based on \0 (NULL character)

       --output-delimiter=NEW_DELIM
              in field mode, replace the delimiter in output lines with this option's argument

       -h, --help
              Print help

       -V, --version
              Print version

EXTRA

       Each call must specify a mode (what to use for columns), a sequence (which columns to print), and provide
       a data source

       ### Specifying a mode

       Use --bytes (-b) or --characters (-c) to specify byte mode

       Use  --fields (-f) to specify field mode, where each line is broken into fields identified by a delimiter
       character. For example for a typical CSV you could use this in combination  with  setting  comma  as  the
       delimiter

       ### Specifying a sequence

       A sequence is a group of 1 or more numbers or inclusive ranges separated by a commas.

       cut -f 2,5-7 some_file.txt

       will display the 2nd, 5th, 6th, and 7th field for each source line

       Ranges can extend to the end of the row by excluding the second number

       cut -f 3- some_file.txt

       will display the 3rd field and all fields after for each source line

       The  first  number  of  a range can be excluded, and this is effectively the same as using 1 as the first
       number: it causes the range to begin at the first column. Ranges can also display a single column

       cut -f 1,3-5 some_file.txt

       will display the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th field for each source line

       The --complement option, when used, inverts the effect of the sequence

       cut --complement -f 4-6 some_file.txt

       will display the every field but the 4th, 5th, and 6th

       ### Specifying a data source

       If no sourcefile arguments are specified, stdin is used as the source of lines to print

       If sourcefile arguments are specified, stdin is ignored and all files are  read  in  consecutively  if  a
       sourcefile is not successfully read, a warning will print to stderr, and the eventual status code will be
       1, but cut will continue to read through proceeding sourcefiles

       To  print columns from both STDIN and a file argument, use - (dash) as a sourcefile argument to represent
       stdin.

       ### Field Mode options

       The fields in each line are identified by a delimiter (separator)

       #### Set the delimiter

       Set the delimiter which separates fields in the file using  the  --delimiter  (-d)  option.  Setting  the
       delimiter is optional.  If not set, a default delimiter of Tab will be used.

       If  the -w option is provided, fields will be separated by any number of whitespace characters (Space and
       Tab). The output delimiter will be a Tab unless explicitly specified. Only one of -d or -w option can  be
       specified.  This is an extension adopted from FreeBSD.

       #### Optionally Filter based on delimiter

       If the --only-delimited (-s) flag is provided, only lines which contain the delimiter will be printed

       #### Replace the delimiter

       If  the  --output-delimiter  option  is  provided,  the  argument  used for it will replace the delimiter
       character in each line printed. This is useful for transforming tabular data - e.g. to convert a CSV to a
       TSV (tab-separated file)

       ### Line endings

       When the --zero-terminated (-z) option is used, cut sees \\0 (null) as the 'line ending' character  (both
       for  the purposes of reading lines and separating printed lines) instead of \\n (newline). This is useful
       for tabular data where some of the cells may contain newlines

       echo 'ab\\0cd' | cut -z -c 1

       will result in 'a\\0c\\0'

VERSION

       v0.0.24

                                                   cut 0.0.24                                             cut(1)