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Question 1

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Answer 1

Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.

Question 2

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• b
• c
• d
• f
• s

Answer 2

• b, –bytes=LIST, Select only these bytes.
• c, –characters=LIST, Select only these characters.
• d, –delimiter=DELIM, Use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter.
• f, –fields=LIST, Select only these fields; also print any line that contains no delimiter character, unless the -s option is specified.
• s, –only-delimited, Do not print lines not containing delimiters.

Question 3

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–complement

–output-delimiter=STRING

-z

Answer 3

–complement, Complement the set of selected bytes, characters or fields.

–output-delimiter=STRING, Use STRING as the output delimiter the default is to use the input delimiter.

-z, –zero-terminated

Question 4

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Each LIST is made up of one range, or many ranges separated by commas.

Answer 4

Selected input is written in the same order that it is read. Each range is one of:

N N’th byte, character or field, counted from 1

N- from N’th byte, character or field, to end of line

N-M from N’th to M’th (included) byte, character or field

-M from first to M’th (included) byte, character or field