What is use of "cut" command?
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Answer / seshadri sethi
Cut - Utility used to cut/Strip out the required data/text
from the source.
Cut can be used in three modes,
Stripping by Character
cut -c 1-3
Striping by Byte length
cut -b -1-72
Stripping by delimiter and fields.
cut -d “|” -f1
Where
-d “|” -> Delimiter used in input text to separate columns
-f1 -> Field/Column number
While processing huge input files, Cut’s performance is far
better than awk
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Answer / swaroopa
cut is used to get a specific data from a file. Supppose
you want to get a data in a file from column 10 to 20, you
can get it by using cut
eg: cat filename.txt | cut -c 10-20
eg: cut -c10-20 <filename.txt>
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Answer / suresh
Cut is used for column wise search of strings orto display
it.
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