tuc (when cut doesn't cut it)

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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 0.6.0 When cut doesn't cut it.

USAGE: tuc [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

FLAGS: -p, --compress-delimiter Collapse any sequence of delimiters -s, --only-delimited Do not print lines not containing delimiters -V, --version Prints version information -h, --help Prints this help and exit

OPTIONS: -b, --bytes Same as --fields, but it cuts on bytes instead (doesn't require a delimiter) -d, --delimiter Delimiter to use to cut the text into pieces [default: \t] -f, --fields Fields to keep, 1-indexed, comma separated. Use colon for inclusive ranges. e.g. 1:3 or 3,2 or 1: or 3,1:2 or -3 or -3:-2 [default 1:] -c, --characters Same as --fields, but it keeps characters instead (doesn't require a delimiter) -r, --replace-delimiter Replace the delimiter with the provided text -t, --trim Trim the delimiter. 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" | tuc -d '' -f 1,3 ac ```

```sh

Can split on unicode scalar values (it expects UTF-8 encoding)

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

```sh

Can split on characters

❯ echo "😁🤩😝😎" | tuc -c 4,3,2,1 😎😝🤩😁 ```

```sh

Can split on bytes (the following emoji are 4 bytes each)

❯ echo "😁🤩😝😎" | ./target/debug/tuc -b 5:8 🤩 ```

LICENSE

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

See LICENSE file for details.