cut

Cut out fields from stdin or files. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/cut-invocation.html.

• Print a specific [c]haracter/[f]ield range of each line:

command | cut --characters|fields 1|1,10|1-10|1-|-10

• Print a [f]ield range of each line with a specific [d]elimiter:

command | cut --delimiter "delimiter" --fields 1|1,10|1-10|1-|-10

• Print a [c]haracter range of each line of the specific file:

cut --characters 1 path/to/file

• Print specific [f]ields of NUL terminated lines (e.g. as in find . -print0) instead of newlines:

command | cut --zero-terminated --fields 1