1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 18.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 21.\" without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)cut.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 36.\" $FreeBSD$ 37.\" 38.Dd June 6, 1993 39.Dt CUT 1 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm cut 43.Nd select portions of each line of a file 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Nm cut 46.Fl b Ar list 47.Op Fl n 48.Op Ar 49.Nm cut 50.Fl c Ar list 51.Op Ar 52.Nm cut 53.Fl f Ar list 54.Op Fl d Ar delim 55.Op Fl s 56.Op Ar 57.Sh DESCRIPTION 58The 59.Nm cut 60utility selects portions of each line (as specified by 61.Ar list ) 62from each 63.Ar file 64(or the standard input by default), and writes them to the 65standard output. 66The items specified by 67.Ar list 68can be in terms of column position or in terms of fields delimited 69by a special character. Column numbering starts from 1. 70.Pp 71.Ar list 72is a comma or whitespace separated set of increasing numbers and/or 73number ranges. 74Number ranges consist of a number, a dash 75.Pq Sq \- , 76and a second number 77and select the fields or columns from the first number to the second, 78inclusive. 79Numbers or number ranges may be preceded by a dash, which selects all 80fields or columns from 1 to the first number. 81Numbers or number ranges may be followed by a dash, which selects all 82fields or columns from the last number to the end of the line. 83Numbers and number ranges may be repeated, overlapping, and in any order. 84It is not an error to select fields or columns not present in the 85input line. 86.Pp 87The options are as follows: 88.Bl -tag -width Fl 89.It Fl b Ar list 90The 91.Ar list 92specifies byte positions. 93.It Fl c Ar list 94The 95.Ar list 96specifies character positions. 97.It Fl d Ar delim 98Use the first character of 99.Ar delim 100as the field delimiter character instead of the tab character. 101.It Fl f Ar list 102The 103.Ar list 104specifies fields, delimited in the input by a single tab character. 105Output fields are separated by a single tab character. 106.It Fl n 107Do not split multi-byte characters. 108.It Fl s 109Suppresses lines with no field delimiter characters. 110Unless specified, lines with no delimiters are passed through unmodified. 111.El 112.Pp 113The 114.Nm cut 115utility exits with 0 on success or 1 if an error occurred. 116.Sh SEE ALSO 117.Xr paste 1 118.Sh STANDARDS 119The 120.Nm cut 121utility conforms to 122.St -p1003.2-92 . 123