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Suppose you have a file that looks like this John Smith 31 Robert Jones 27 ... This file has 3 columns separated by spaces. To select only the first column, do the following. cut -d ' ' -f1 filename Here the -d flag, specifies the delimiter, or what separates the records. The -f flag speci...

Sometimes, it's useful to display a range of columns in a file. Suppose you have this file Apple California 2017 1.00 47 Mango Oregon 2015 2.30 33 To select the first 3 columns do cut -d ' ' -f1-3 filename This will display the following output Apple California 2017 Mango Oregon 2015 ...