S6-CUT(1)

S6-CUT(1) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the S6-CUT(1) page from the General Commands Manual — this is the s6-cut era, and it’s giving “tiny utility, main character energy.” ✨

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💖 NAME 💖

s6-cut — print selected portions of the lines of its input

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

s6-cut [-b list | -c list | -f list] [-n] [-s] [file ...]

🎀 the synopsis bits, spelled out 🎀

• -b list — the form for -b, taking a list.
• -c list — the form for -c, taking a list.
• -f list — the form for -f, taking a list.
• -n — the standalone flag -n, exactly as shown in the synopsis.
• -s — the standalone flag -s, exactly as shown in the synopsis.
• file ... — optional file arguments, because the synopsis puts them in [file ...].

The synopsis also shows [-b list | -c list | -f list] as alternatives, and this page doesn’t add extra lore beyond that — so no invented details, periodt. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

s6-cut acts as the generic cut[1] utility.

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• 111 — Temporary error.
• 100 — Permanent error, such as a misuse.
• 127 — Unable to execute program - not found.
• 126 — Unable to execute program - other reason.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

you already know the squad: s6-basename(1), s6-cat(1), s6-chmod(1), s6-chown(1), s6-clock(1), s6-dirname(1), s6-dumpenv(1), s6-echo(1), s6-env(1), s6-expr(1), s6-false(1), s6-format-filter(1), s6-grep(1), s6-head(1), s6-hiercopy(1), s6-linkname(1), s6-ln(1), s6-ls(1), s6-maximumtime(1), s6-mkdir(1), s6-mkfifo(1), s6-nice(1), s6-nuke(1), s6-pause(1), s6-printenv(1), s6-quote(1), s6-quote-filter(1), s6-rename(1), s6-rmrf(1), s6-seq(1), s6-sleep(1), s6-sort(1), s6-sync(1), s6-tai64ndiff(1), s6-tail(1), s6-touch(1), s6-true(1), s6-uniquename(1), s6-unquote(1), s6-unquote-filter(1), s6-update-symlinks(1), seekablepipe(1). 💖

The [1] footnote is this URL: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/cut.html

This man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-cut.html

🌈 STANDARDS 🌈

The standards line is literally: s6-cut is suitable as a cut[1] program conforming to .

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Laurent Bercot
• Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)

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and that’s the whole page, bestie — cute sign-off: Debian, April 16, 2022, S6-CUT(1) 💖💅