1CUT(1) User Commands CUT(1)
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6 cut - remove sections from each line of files
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9 cut OPTION... [FILE]...
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12 Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.
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17 -b, --bytes=LIST
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30 -n with -b: don't split multibyte characters
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32 --complement
33 complement the set of selected bytes, characters or fields
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39 use STRING as the output delimiter the default is to use the
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42 --help display this help and exit
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44 --version
45 output version information and exit
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47 Use one, and only one of -b, -c or -f. Each LIST is made up of one
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52 N N'th byte, character or field, counted from 1
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54 N- from N'th byte, character or field, to end of line
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58 -M from first to M'th (included) byte, character or field
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60 With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
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63 Written by David M. Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
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66 Report cut bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
67 GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
68 General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
69 Report cut translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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72 Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
73 GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
74 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
75 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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78 The full documentation for cut is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
79 the info and cut programs are properly installed at your site, the com‐
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88GNU coreutils 8.4 June 2018 CUT(1)