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cut is a command from coreutility which allows you to print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output. Following 4 flexible options you can choose or tailer it more by youself for you own needs.Here is an example file from lscpu -p option # Socket,CPU,Core,Address,Online,Configured,Polarization 0,0,0,,Y,, 0,1,1,,Y,, 0,2,2,,Y,, 0,3,3,,Y,, 0,4,4,,Y,, 0,5,5,,Y,, 1,6,6,,Y,, 1,7,7,,Y,, 1,8,8,,Y,, 1,9,9,,Y,, 1,10,10,,Y,, 1,11,11,,Y,, Example #1, print the second field # cut -d',' -f2 testfile CPU 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Option -d and -f -d, --delimiter=DELIM use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter -f, --fields=LIST select only these fields; also print any line that contains no delimiter character, unless the -s option is specified # cut -d',' -f2,5 testfile CPU,Online 0,Y 1,Y 2,Y ... # cut -d',' -f2-5 testfile CPU,Core,Address,Online 0,0,,Y 1,1,,Y ... # cut -d',' -f2- testfile CPU,Core,Address,Online,Configured,Polarization 0,0,,Y,, 1,1,,Y,, ... # cut -d',' -f-2 testfile # Socket,CPU 0,0 0,1 ... Same rule applys to -b and -c # cut -c1 testfile # 0 ... # cut -c1,5 testfile #c 00 ... # cut -c1-5 testfile # Soc 0,0,0 ... # cut -c-5 testfile # Soc 0,0,0 ... # cut -c5- testfile cket,CPU,Core,Address,Online,Configured,Polarization 0,,Y,, 1,,Y,, ... -b and -c -b, --bytes=LIST select only these bytes -c, --characters=LIST select only these characters Rest options are easy. -n with -b: don't split multibyte characters --complement complement the set of selected bytes, characters or fields -s, --only-delimited do not print lines not containing delimiters --output-delimiter=STRING use STRING as the output delimiter the default is to use the input delimiter |