cut

Runs on:

QNX OS

Options:

-b list

Select bytes.

-C list

Select Unicode columns.

-c list

Select UTF-8 characters.

-D

Don't sort and collate selections or match lines specified by -f or -F without a delimiter.

-d delim

Use delim as the delimiter character (default is a tab character for -f, run of whitespace for -F.)

-F list

Select fields separated by a delim regular expression.

-f list

Select fields (words) separated by a single delim character.

-O delim

Output delimiter (default one space for -F, input delim for -f.)

-s

Skip lines that don't have delimiters.

file

The pathname of a text file, whose contents are used instead of the standard input.

Description:

For every file you name, the cut utility cuts out columns or fields from each line, concatenates them, and writes them to standard output.

Each selection list is comma separated, either by numbers (starting from one) or by dash-separated ranges (with X- marking the end of the line, and -X marking the start.) Use -D to prevent selection ranges from being sorted and collated (this is done by default).

This utility is provided as part of the toybox package. For information on how to enable it, see toybox.

Contributing author:

Rob Landley and the toybox project (see https://landley.net/toybox/).