On (info "(coreutils) cut invocation") ‘-d INPUT_DELIM_BYTE’ ‘--delimiter=INPUT_DELIM_BYTE’ With ‘-f’, use the first byte of INPUT_DELIM_BYTE as the input fields separator (default is TAB).
please mention there is no way to indicate more than one character, thus no way to process $ ls -l | cut ... and that one should use awk, etc. for that. Also mention it on the cut(1) man page.