Extract specific sections from lines
cut -f FIELD FILE
Splits each line in FILE by TAB and extracts FIELD
-d, --delimiter=DELIM Use DELIM instead of TAB as the field delimiter-f, --fields=LIST Select only the fields specified in LISTSplit by a specific delimiter
cut -d ' ' -f 2 file.txt
Splits each line by space and extracts field 2
Extract to the end of line
cut -f 2- file.txt
Extracts field 2 and everything coming after it
Extract from the beginning of line
cut -f -2 file.txt
Extracts from the beginning up to and including field 2
Extract everything between two fields
cut -f 2-4 file.txt
Extracts fields 2 to 4