How Do You Use Cut Command in Linux?
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How does cut command work in Linux?

The cut command in UNIX is a command for cutting out the sections from each line of files and writing the result to standard output. It can be used to cut parts of a line by byte position, character and field. Basically the cut command slices a line and extracts the text.

How do you cut a file in Linux?

Each line of the file can be sliced and the required data can be retrieved easily by using `cut` command. It can also be used to cut text by delimiter or character or byte position.
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Linux cut command examples.

Option tag Description
-z or –zero-terminated Use NULL as line delimiter.
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