Display file contents

Output first part of files

Output last part of files

Remove sections from each line of files

text

columns

extraction

cut

cut extracts specific columns or character ranges from text files.

Extract usernames

cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd

Extract characters 1-5

cut -c1-5 file.txt

Extract columns 2 and 4

cut -f2,4 data.tsv

Search for patterns in files

Sort lines of text files

Report or omit repeated lines