How Do You Cut Down the First Word in Linux?
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How do I cut a word in Linux?

To cut by character use the -c option. This selects the characters given to the -c option. This can be a list of comma separated numbers, a range of numbers or a single number. Where your input stream is character based -c can be a better option than selecting by bytes as often characters are more than one byte.

How do you find the first word of a line in Unix?

To print a whole word, you want -f 1 , not -c 1 . And since the default field delimiter is TAB rather than SPACE, you need to use the -d option. What’s nice about this solution is it doesn’t read beyond the first line of the file.

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