🪓 hck

A sharp cut(1) clone.

hck is a shortening of hack, a rougher form of cut.

A close to drop in replacement for cut that uses a regex delimiter instead of a fixed string. Additionally this tool allows for specification of the order of the output columns using the same column selection syntax as cut (see below for examples).

Features

• Reordering of output columns! i.e. if you use -f4,2,8 the output columns will appear in the order 4, 2, 8
• Regex delimiter, i.e. you can split on multiple spaces without and extra pipe to tr!
• Selection of columns by header regex with the -F option, or by string literal by setting the -L flag
• As fast as cut or awk

Install

With the Rust toolchain:

bash cargo install hck

From the releases page:

bash wget ...

TODO

• Add complement argument
• Handle pipe closing and such more gracefully
• Update CI

References

• rust-coreutils-cut