HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 1 User Commands A-M (vol 1)

cut(1) cut(1)

International Code Set Support

cut supports both single- and multibyte character code sets. International code set characters may be

speciﬁed in the char given to the

-d option. cut recognizes the international code set characters accord-

ing to the locale speciﬁed in the

LC_CTYPE environment variable.

DIAGNOSTICS

line too long

Line length must not exceed LINE_MAX characters or ﬁelds, including the newline character

(see limits(5).

bad list for b/c/f option

Missing -b, -c,or

-f option or incorrectly speciﬁed list. No error occurs if a line has fewer

ﬁelds than the list calls for.

no fields

list is empty.

EXAMPLES

Password ﬁle mapping of user ID to user names:

cut -d : -f 1,5 /etc/passwd

Set environment variable name to current login name:

name=‘who am i | cut -f 1 -d " "‘

Convert ﬁle source containing lines of arbitrary length into two ﬁles where file1 contains the ﬁrst

500 bytes (unless the 500th byte is within a multibyte character), and

file2 contains the remainder of

each line:

cut -b 1-500 -n source > file1

cut -b 500- -n source > file2

WARNINGS

cut does not expand tabs. Pipe text through expand(1) if tab expansion is required.

Backspace characters are treated the same as any other character. To eliminate backspace characters

before processing by cut, use the fold or col command (see fold(1) and col(1)).

AUTHOR

cut was developed by OSF and HP.