cut

cut is a command line utility on Unix and Unix-like operating systems which is used to extract sections from each line of input - usually from a file.

• GNU Coreutils Project Homepage [EN]

• GNU Coreutils [EN] @ Fedora Package
• GNU Coreutils [EN] @ Homebrew Formula

• cut [EN] @ Wikipedia
• cut [DE] @ Wikipedia

Documentation

• cut [EN] @ GNU Coreutils Manual

• man 1 'cut' [EN]

Further information

• Cut Command Examples (13.02.2024) [EN] @ It's FOSS

Syntax

cut [PARAMETER ...] [FILE ...]

Parameters

-c LIST, --characters=LIST

Select only these characters.

-d DELIMITER, --delimiter=DELIMITER

Use DELIMITER instead of TAB for field delimiter.

-f LIST, --fields=LIST

Select only these fields; also print any line that contains no delimiter character, unless the -s option is specified.

-s, --only-delimited

Do not print lines not containing delimiters.

Examples

Create a 10 bytes long random password based on the Base64 charset [a-zA-Z0-9/+]

openssl rand -rand '/dev/random' -base64 12 | cut --characters='1-10'

Output:

b5/FeVaFlWeS