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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-01-04 15:50:59 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-01-04 15:50:59 +0000
commit31353baf13951091e2d82513ebdd7c0a95869891 (patch)
treefcb58f81f778fcf3b49532f5aee67d703c06979a /usr.bin
parent70fb1a7c30e59538f42539695dc536e30b1a5651 (diff)
add an EXAMPLES section adapted from freebsd's page,
courtesy of ray lai;
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/cut/cut.114
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/cut/cut.1 b/usr.bin/cut/cut.1
index 6012f1607c4..443d4a7b38c 100644
--- a/usr.bin/cut/cut.1
+++ b/usr.bin/cut/cut.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: cut.1,v 1.8 2003/06/03 02:56:07 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: cut.1,v 1.9 2006/01/04 15:50:58 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: cut.1,v 1.6 1995/10/02 20:19:26 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
@@ -112,6 +112,18 @@ Unless specified, lines with no delimiters are passed through unmodified.
The
.Nm
utility exits 0 on success or 1 if an error occurred.
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+Extract login names and shells from the system
+.Xr passwd 5
+file as
+.Dq name:shell
+pairs:
+.Pp
+.Dl "$ cut -d : -f 1,7 /etc/passwd"
+.Pp
+Show the names and login times of logged in users:
+.Pp
+.Dl "$ who | cut -c 1-16,26-38"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr paste 1
.Sh STANDARDS