hpr0953 :: LiTS 003: cut

Summary: Using the cut command

Series: Linux in the Shell

Source: [http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0953](http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0953)

In the third in his series Dann, shows us the benefits of the cut command:

The cut command, as the man page states, "removes sections from each line of a file." The cut command can also be used on a stream and it can do more than just remove section. If a file is not specified or "-" is used, the cut command takes input from standard in. The cut command can be used to extract sections from a file or stream based upon a specific criteria. An example of this would be cutting specific fields from a csv (comma separated values) file. For instance, cut can be used to extract the name and email address from a csv file with the following content:

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