tuc (when cut doesn't cut it)

We've all been there. You want to cut some string on a delimiter repeated in a non-deterministic way. Maybe you even want to use negative indexes or replace the delimiters in the cut part with something else... That's where tuc can help.

Install

Download one of the prebuilt binaries

or run

cargo install tuc

Help

``` tuc 0.4.0 When cut doesn't cut it.

USAGE: tuc [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

FLAGS: -p, --compress-delimiter Display the delimiter at most once in a sequence -h, --help Prints help information -s, --only-delimited Do not print lines not containing delimiters -V, --version Prints version information

OPTIONS: -d, --delimiter Delimiter to use to cut the text into pieces [default: ] -f, --fields Fields to keep, like 1:3 or 3,2 or 1: or 3,1:2 or -3 or -3:-2 [default: 1:] -r Replace the delimiter -t Valid trim values are (l|L)eft, (r|R)ight, (b|B)oth ```

Examples

```sh

Cut using a greedy delimiter

❯ echo "foo bar baz" | tuc -d ' ' -f 2: bar baz ```

```sh

Compress delimiters after cut

❯ echo "foo bar baz" | tuc -d ' ' -f 2: -p bar baz ```

```sh

Replace remaining delimiters with something else

❯ echo "foo bar baz" | tuc -d ' ' -f 2: -p -r ' -> ' bar -> baz ```

```sh

Indexes can be negative and rearranged

❯ echo "a b c" | tuc -d ' ' -f -1,-2,-3 cba ```

```sh

Delimiters can be any number of characters long

❯ echo "abc" | cargo run -- -d '' -f 1,3 ac ```

```sh

Works with multibyte utf-8 encoded characters

❯ echo "a𝌆b𝌆c" | cut -d '𝌆' -f1,3 ac ```

LICENSE

Tuc is distributed under the GNU GPL license (version 3 or any later version).

See LICENSE file for details.