Removing Characters from Output with cut
Learn how to remove characters from the output using the cut command.
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The cut command
Now, let’s discuss the cut command. The cut command lets us remove text from the output stream or a file. Let’s give it a try:
$ echo 'hello world' | cut -c 2-4
Here’s how it works. The -c flag tells the cut command to cut at characters rather than bytes. The value is 2-4, which tells cut to cut out everything other than characters 2 through 4.
We can also specify that we want everything from the beginning of the string until the specified position. For ...