Recipe : Columnwise cutting of file with cut

Synatx
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$ cut -f FIELD_LIST filename


$ cat student_data.txt 
No	Name	Mark	Percent 
1	Sarath	45	    90 
2	Alex	49	    98 
3	Anu	    45	    90

Cutting first field
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$ cut -f1 student_data.txt
No 
1 
2 
3

Extracting multiple fields
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$ cut -f2,4 student_data.txt
Name	Percent 
Sarath	90 
Alex	98 
Anu	    90 

Compliment operation with cut
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$ cut -f3 --complement student_data.txt
No	Name	Percent 
1	Sarath	90 
2	Alex	98 
3	Anu	    90

Specifying delimiter to cut
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$ cat delimited_data.txt
No;Name;Mark;Percent
1;Sarath;45;90 
2;Alex;49;98 
3;Anu;45;90

$ cut -f2 -d";" delimited_data.txt 
Name 
Sarath 
Alex 
Anu 

Range of characters or bytes as fields
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$ cat range_fields.txt 
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy

$ cut -c1-5 range_fields.txt 
abcde 
abcde 
abcde 
abcde

$ cut range_fields.txt -c-2 
ab 
ab 
ab 
ab

Output delimiter
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$ cut range_fields.txt -c1-3,6-9 --output-delimiter ","
abc,fghi 
abc,fghi 
abc,fghi 
abc,fghi