For questions pertaining to cut, a filter program which extracts fields or columns of each line of input. Use this tag for questions about cut itself or questions about issues arising from using the cut utility.

The tag should be used for questions that are about the utility itself or about issues arising from the usage of the utility.

Relevant questions

How to define 'tab' delimiter with 'cut' in BASH?

Split string by delimiter and get N-th element

External reference

cut specification (The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 edition)