It was so amazing function when I got tired of writing long scripts in graphical tools for saving smaller region from mother data.
Example>
Format: cdo sellonlatbox,lon1,lon2,lat1,lat2 ifile ofile
for nino34 region (170W-120W, 5S-5N) from SST.nc
cdo sellonlatbox,190,240,-5,5 SST.nc SST.nino34.nc
So, Simple 🙂