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

       v0.0.20

                                            cut 0.0.20                                     cut(1)