In an e-mail Brian Walden wrote that: "GWRL stands for Gottfried W. R. Luderer, the author of cut(1) and paste(1), probably around 1978. Those came either from PWB or USG, as he worked with, or for, Berkley Tague. Thus they made their way into AT&T commercial UNIX, first into System III and the into System V, and that's why they are missing from early BSD releases as they didn't get into Research UNIX until the 8th Edition." So update the HISTORY and AUTHORS sections for cut(1) and paste(1). [1] https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-January/019955.html Reviewed by: pauamma, imp Obtained from: OpenBSD (in partial) MFC after: 1 week Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36048
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.\" @(#)cut.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd November 6, 2022
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.Dt CUT 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm cut
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.Nd cut out selected portions of each line of a file
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Fl b Ar list
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.Op Fl n
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.Op Ar
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.Nm
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.Fl c Ar list
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.Op Ar
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.Nm
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.Fl f Ar list
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.Op Fl w | Fl d Ar delim
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.Op Fl s
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.Op Ar
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility cuts out selected portions of each line (as specified by
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.Ar list )
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from each
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.Ar file
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and writes them to the standard output.
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If no
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.Ar file
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arguments are specified, or a file argument is a single dash
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.Pq Sq Fl ,
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.Nm
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reads from the standard input.
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The items specified by
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.Ar list
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can be in terms of column position or in terms of fields delimited
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by a special character.
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Column and field numbering start from 1.
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.Pp
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The
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.Ar list
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option argument
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is a comma or whitespace separated set of increasing numbers and/or
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number ranges.
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Number ranges consist of a number, a dash
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.Pq Sq \- ,
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and a second number
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and select the columns or fields from the first number to the second,
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inclusive.
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Numbers or number ranges may be preceded by a dash, which selects all
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columns or fields from 1 to the last number.
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Numbers or number ranges may be followed by a dash, which selects all
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columns or fields from the last number to the end of the line.
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Numbers and number ranges may be repeated, overlapping, and in any order.
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It is not an error to select columns or fields not present in the
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input line.
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl b Ar list
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The
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.Ar list
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specifies byte positions.
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.It Fl c Ar list
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The
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.Ar list
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specifies character positions.
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.It Fl d Ar delim
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Use
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.Ar delim
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as the field delimiter character instead of the tab character.
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.It Fl f Ar list
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The
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.Ar list
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specifies fields, separated in the input by the field delimiter character
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(see the
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.Fl d
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option).
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Output fields are separated by a single occurrence of the field delimiter
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character.
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.It Fl n
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Do not split multi-byte characters.
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Characters will only be output if at least one byte is selected, and,
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after a prefix of zero or more unselected bytes, the rest of the bytes
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that form the character are selected.
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.It Fl s
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Suppress lines with no field delimiter characters.
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Unless specified, lines with no delimiters are passed through unmodified.
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.It Fl w
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Use whitespace (spaces and tabs) as the delimiter.
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Consecutive spaces and tabs count as one single field separator.
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.El
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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The
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.Ev LANG , LC_ALL
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and
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.Ev LC_CTYPE
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environment variables affect the execution of
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.Nm
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as described in
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.Xr environ 7 .
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.Sh EXIT STATUS
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.Ex -std
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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Extract users' login names and shells from the system
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.Xr passwd 5
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file as
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.Dq name:shell
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pairs:
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.Pp
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.Dl "cut -d : -f 1,7 /etc/passwd"
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.Pp
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Show the names and login times of the currently logged in users:
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.Pp
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.Dl "who | cut -c 1-16,26-38"
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr colrm 1 ,
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.Xr paste 1
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Nm
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utility conforms to
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.St -p1003.2-92 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl w
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flag is an extension to the specification.
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Nm
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command first appeared in
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.Bx 4.3 Reno .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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The original Bell Labs version was written by
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.An Gottfried W. R. Luderer
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and the
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.Bx
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version by
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.An Adam S. Moskowitz .
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