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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON |
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CUT(1) User Commands CUT(1)
cut - remove sections from each line of files
cut OPTION... [FILE]...
Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short
options too.
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#cut-b\-b, --bytes=LIST]8;;\
select only these byte positions
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#cut-c\-c, --characters=LIST]8;;\
select only these character positions
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#cut--complement\--complement]8;;\
complement the set of selected bytes, characters or fields
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#cut-d\-d, --delimiter=DELIM]8;;\
use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#cut-f\-f, --fields=LIST]8;;\
select only these fields; also print any line that
contains no delimiter character, unless the -s option is
specified
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#cut-F\-F LIST]8;;\
like -f, but also implies -w and -O ' '
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#cut-n\-n, --no-partial]8;;\
with -b, don't output partial multi-byte characters
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#cut-O\-O, --output-delimiter=STRING]8;;\
use STRING as the output delimiter; the default is to use
the input delimiter
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#cut-s\-s, --only-delimited]8;;\
do not print lines not containing delimiters
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#cut-w\-w, --whitespace-delimited[=trimmed]]8;;\
use a run of blank characters as the field delimiter; with
'trimmed', ignore leading and trailing blanks
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#cut-z\-z, --zero-terminated]8;;\
line delimiter is NUL, not newline
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/cut#cut--help\--help]8;;\ display this help and exit
]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/cut#cut--version\--version]8;;\
output version information and exit
Use one, and only one of -b, -c, -f or -F. Each LIST is made up
of one range, or many ranges separated by commas. Selected input
is written in the same order that it is read, and is written
exactly once. Each range is one of:
N N'th byte, character or field, counted from 1
N- from N'th byte, character or field, to end of line
N-M from N'th to M'th (included) byte, character or field
-M from first to M'th (included) byte, character or field
Written by David M. Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
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Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+:
GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/cut>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) cut invocation'
This page is part of the coreutils (basic file, shell and text
manipulation utilities) project. Information about the project
can be found at ⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/⟩. If you
have a bug report for this manual page, see
⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/⟩. This page was obtained
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send a mail to man-pages@man7.org
GNU coreutils 9.11 April 2026 CUT(1)
Pages that refer to this page: man-pages(7)
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