From 59f0a60015028b8e87930522280a1997441c3471 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 08:37:27 +0000
Subject: Add an examples section. Avoid beginning a sentence with a lowercase
 letter.

---
 usr.bin/cut/cut.1 | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

(limited to 'usr.bin/cut/cut.1')

diff --git a/usr.bin/cut/cut.1 b/usr.bin/cut/cut.1
index f81e682..856ad3b 100644
--- a/usr.bin/cut/cut.1
+++ b/usr.bin/cut/cut.1
@@ -74,7 +74,9 @@ can be in terms of column position or in terms of fields delimited
 by a special character.
 Column numbering starts from 1.
 .Pp
+The
 .Ar list
+option argument
 is a comma or whitespace separated set of increasing numbers and/or
 number ranges.
 Number ranges consist of a number, a dash
@@ -128,6 +130,18 @@ if the
 option is specified.
 Their effect is described in
 .Xr environ 7 .
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+Extract users' 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 the currently logged in users:
+.Pp
+.Dl "who | cut -c 1-16,26-38"
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 .Ex -std
 .Sh SEE ALSO
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