Extract specific fields with cut

Splits each line at the delimiter and prints only the requested fields. Fields can be given as a list (1,7), a range (2-4) or open-ended (3-). In the example, the username and login shell of all accounts are shown.

Note: cut only accepts a single character as delimiter and treats several consecutive spaces as several empty fields. For whitespace-separated output, awk '{print $2}' is better suited.