choose

A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk.

TLDR

Print the 5th item from a line (starting from 0)

$ choose [4]

Print the first, 3rd, and 5th item from a line, where items are separated by ':' instead of whitespace

$ choose --field-separator '[:]' [0] [2] [4]

Print everything from the 2nd to 5th item on the line, including the 5th

$ choose [1]:[4]

Print everything from the 2nd to 5th item on the line, excluding the 5th

$ choose --exclusive [1]:[4]

Print the beginning of the line to the 3rd item

$ choose :[2]

Print all items from the beginning of the line until the 3rd item (exclusive)

$ choose --exclusive :[2]

Print all items from the 3rd to the end of the line

$ choose [2]:

Print the last item from a line

$ choose [-1]

choose 1.3.3
`choose` sections from each line of files

USAGE:
    choose [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] ...

FLAGS:
    -c, --character-wise    Choose fields by character number
    -d, --debug             Activate debug mode
    -x, --exclusive         Use exclusive ranges, similar to array indexing in many programming languages
    -h, --help              Prints help information
    -n, --non-greedy        Use non-greedy field separators
        --one-indexed       Index from 1 instead of 0
    -V, --version           Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -f, --field-separator
            Specify field separator other than whitespace, using Rust `regex` syntax

    -i, --input                                       Input file
    -o, --output-field-separator     Specify output field separator

ARGS:
    ...    Fields to print. Either a, a:b, a..b, or a..=b, where a and b are integers. The beginning or end
                    of a range can be omitted, resulting in including the beginning or end of the line,
                    respectively. a:b is inclusive of b (unless overridden by -x). a..b is exclusive of b and a..=b
                    is inclusive of b

choose

A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk.

TLDR

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