SHELL SCRIPTING PART 4 || CUT COMMANDS IN SHELL SCRIPT

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CUT#5

Given a tab delimited file with several columns (tsv format) print the first three fields.

Sample Input

1   New York, New York[10]  8,244,910   1   New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA MSA  19,015,900  1   New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA 22,214,083
2   Los Angeles, California 3,819,702   2   Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA MSA    12,944,801  2   Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA CSA    18,081,569
3   Chicago, Illinois   2,707,120   3   Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI MSA 9,504,753   3   Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI CSA  9,729,825
4   Houston, Texas  2,145,146   4   Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA 6,526,548   4   Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA 8,718,083
5   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[11]  1,536,471   5   Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX MSA  6,086,538   5   Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-RI-NH CSA   7,601,061

CODE

cut -f-3

Sample Output

1   New York, New York[10]  8,244,910
2   Los Angeles, California 3,819,702
3   Chicago, Illinois   2,707,120
4   Houston, Texas  2,145,146
5   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[11]  1,536,471

CUT#6

To Print the characters from thirteenth position to the end.

Sample Input

New York is a state in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. 
New York is the 27th-most extensive, the third-most populous populated of the 50 United States. 
New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south.
About one third of all the battles of the Revolutionary War took place in New York.
Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area.

cut -c13-

Sample Output

a state in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. 
the 27th-most extensive, the third-most populous populated of the 50 United States. 
bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south.
ird of all the battles of the Revolutionary War took place in New York.
's 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area.