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 releases or run

cargo install

Help

tuc 0.3.0
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>    Delimiter to use to cut the text into pieces [default: 	]
    -f, --fields <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-delimiter>         Replace the delimiter
    -t <trim>                      Valid trim values are (l|L)eft, (r|R)ight, (b|B)oth

Examples

# Cut using a greedy delimiter
❯ echo "foo    bar   baz" | tuc -d ' ' -f 2:
bar   baz

# Compress delimiters after cut
❯ echo "foo    bar   baz" | tuc -d ' ' -f 2: -p
bar baz

# Replace remaining delimiters with something else
❯ echo "foo    bar   baz" | tuc -d ' ' -f 2: -p -r ' -> '
bar -> baz

# Indexes can be negative and rearranged
❯ echo "a b c" | tuc -d ' ' -f -1,-2,-3
cba

# Delimiters can be any number of characters long
❯ echo "a<sep>b<sep>c" | cargo run -- -d '<sep>' -f 1,3
ac

# Works with multibyte utf-8 encoded characters
❯ echo "a𝌆b𝌆c" | cut -d '𝌆' -f1,3
ac