tldr/pages/common/cut.md

cut

Cut out fields from STDIN or files.

• Cut out the first sixteen characters of each line of STDIN:

cut -c {{1-16}}

• Cut out the first sixteen characters of each line of the given files:

cut -c {{1-16}} {{file}}

• Cut out everything from the 3rd character to the end of each line:

cut -c{{3-}}

• Cut out the fifth field, split on the colon character of each line:

cut -d'{{:}}' -f{{5}}

• Cut out the fields five and 10, split on the colon character of each line:

cut -d'{{:}}' -f{{5,10}}

• Cut out the fields five through 10, split on the colon character of each line:

cut -d'{{:}}' -f{{5-10}}