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cut: vertical slice (cont)

Examples: 

# print the first column
cut -f1 data 

# print the first three columns
cut -f1-3 data

# print the first and fourth columns
cut -f1,4 data

# print all columns after the third
cut -f4- data

# print the first three columns, if '|'-separated
cut -d'|' -f1-3 data

# print the first five chars on each line
cut -c1-5 data

Unfortunately, there's no way to refer to "last column" without counting the columns.