| 1 | .TH CUT 1
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| 2 | .SH NAME
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| 3 | cut \- select out columns of a file
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 5 | \fBcut [ \fB \-b \fR|\fB \-c\fR] \fIlist\fR [\fIfile...\fR]\fR
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| 6 | .br
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| 7 | \fBcut \-f \fIlist\fR [\fB\-d \fIdelim\fR] [\fB \-s\fR]\fR [\fIfile...\fR]"
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| 8 | .br
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| 9 | .de FL
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| 10 | .TP
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| 11 | \\fB\\$1\\fR
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| 12 | \\$2
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| 13 | ..
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| 14 | .de EX
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| 15 | .TP 20
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| 16 | \\fB\\$1\\fR
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| 17 | # \\$2
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| 18 | ..
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| 19 | .SH OPTIONS
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| 20 | .FL "\-b" "Cut specified bytes"
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| 21 | .FL "\-c" "Select out specific characters"
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| 22 | .FL "\-d" "Change the column delimiter to \fIdelim\fR"
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| 23 | .FL "\-f" "Select out specific fields that are separated by the delimiter character ( see \fIdelim\fR)"
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| 24 | .FL "\-i" "Runs of delimiters count as one"
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| 25 | .FL "\-s" "Suppres lines with no delimiter characters, when used with the \-f option. Lines with no delimiters are passwd through untouched"
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| 26 | .SH EXAMPLES
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| 27 | .EX "cut \-f 2 file" "Extract field 2"
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| 28 | .EX "cut \-c 1\-2,5 file" "Extract character columns 1, 2, and 5"
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| 29 | .EX "cut \-c 1\-5,7\- file" "Extract all columns except 6"
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| 30 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 31 | .PP
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| 32 | \fICut\fR extracts one or more fields or columns from a file and writes them on
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| 33 | standard output.
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| 34 | If the \fB\-f\fR flag is used, the fields are separated by a delimiter
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| 35 | character, normally a tab, but can be changed using the \fB\-d\fR flag.
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| 36 | If the \fB\-c\fR flag is used, specific columns can be specified.
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| 37 | The list can be comma or BLANK separated. The \fB\-f\fR and
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| 38 | \fB\-c\fR flags are mutually exclusive.
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| 39 | Note: The POSIX1003.2 standard requires the option \-b to cut out
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| 40 | specific bytes in a file. It is intended for systems with multi byte
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| 41 | characters (e.g. kanji), since MINIX uses only one byte characters,
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| 42 | this option is equivalent to \-c. For the same reason, the option
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| 43 | \-n has no effect and is not listed in this manual page.
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| 44 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 45 | .BR sed (1),
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| 46 | .BR awk (9).
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