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1.1     ! root        1: .TH CUT 1
        !             2: .CT 1 files
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: cut, paste \- rearrange columns of data
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B cut 
        !             7: .BI -c list
        !             8: [
        !             9: .I file ...
        !            10: ]
        !            11: .PP
        !            12: .B cut
        !            13: .BI -f list
        !            14: [
        !            15: .BI -d char
        !            16: ]
        !            17: [
        !            18: .I file ...
        !            19: ]
        !            20: .PP
        !            21: .B paste
        !            22: [
        !            23: .B -s
        !            24: ]
        !            25: [
        !            26: .BI -d chars
        !            27: ]
        !            28: .I file ...
        !            29: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            30: .I Cut
        !            31: selects fields from each line of the
        !            32: .I files
        !            33: (standard input default).
        !            34: In data base parlance, it
        !            35: projects a relation.
        !            36: The fields
        !            37: can be fixed length,
        !            38: as on a punched card (option
        !            39: .BR -c ),
        !            40: or be marked with a delimiter character (option
        !            41: .BR -f ).
        !            42: .PP
        !            43: The meanings of the options follow.
        !            44: Elements of a 
        !            45: .I list
        !            46: are integers separated by commas, or by
        !            47: .B -
        !            48: to indicate a range, for example
        !            49: .L 1,3-5,7.
        !            50: .TF -d\ char\ \ 
        !            51: .PD
        !            52: .TP
        !            53: .BI -c list
        !            54: The
        !            55: .I list
        !            56: specifies character
        !            57: positions.
        !            58: .TP
        !            59: .BI -f list
        !            60: The
        !            61: .I list
        !            62: specifies field numbers.
        !            63: .TP
        !            64: .BI -d char
        !            65: The character
        !            66: is the delimiter for option
        !            67: .BR -f .
        !            68: Default is tab.
        !            69: .TP
        !            70: .B -s
        !            71: Suppress lines with no delimiter characters.
        !            72: Normally such lines pass through untouched under option
        !            73: .BR -f .
        !            74: .PP
        !            75: .I Paste
        !            76: concatenates corresponding lines of the input
        !            77: .I files
        !            78: and places the result on the standard output.
        !            79: The file name
        !            80: .L -
        !            81: refers to the standard input.
        !            82: Lines are glued together with
        !            83: characters taken circularly from the set
        !            84: .I chars.
        !            85: The set may contain the special escape sequences
        !            86: .B \en
        !            87: (newline),
        !            88: .B \et
        !            89: (tab),
        !            90: .B \e\e
        !            91: (backslash), and
        !            92: .B \e0
        !            93: (empty string, not a null character).
        !            94: The options are
        !            95: .TP
        !            96: .BI -d chars
        !            97: The output separator characters.
        !            98: Default is a tab.
        !            99: .TP
        !           100: .B -s
        !           101: Paste together lines of one file,
        !           102: treating every line as if it came from a distinct input.
        !           103: .SH EXAMPLES
        !           104: .TP
        !           105: .L
        !           106: cut -d: -f1,3 /etc/passwd
        !           107: Print map from login names to userids, see
        !           108: .IR passwd (5).
        !           109: .TP
        !           110: .L
        !           111: NAME=`who am i | cut -f1 -d" "`
        !           112: Set
        !           113: .L NAME
        !           114: to current login name (subtly different from
        !           115: .IR getuid (1)).
        !           116: .PP
        !           117: .EX
        !           118: ls | paste - - - -
        !           119: ls | paste -s '-d\et\en' -
        !           120: .EE
        !           121: .ns
        !           122: .IP
        !           123: 4-column and 2-column file listing
        !           124: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           125: .IR gre (1), 
        !           126: .IR awk (1), 
        !           127: .IR sed (1), 
        !           128: .IR pr (1), 
        !           129: .IR column (1)
        !           130: .SH BUGS
        !           131: .I Cut
        !           132: should handle disordered lists.
        !           133: .br
        !           134: In default of file names,
        !           135: .I paste
        !           136: should read the the standard input.

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