theryangeary/choose

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2266 stars · 47 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Choose is a fast, human-friendly command-line utility written in Rust for selecting fields or character ranges from each line of input, serving as an intuitive alternative to cut and simple awk usage. It supports Python-slice-like syntax, negative indexing, reverse ranges, and regex field separators.

Use cases

• extract specific fields from lines of text in the shell
• replace confusing cut syntax with intuitive field selection
• print the nth column of a file quickly
• split lines by a custom regex separator
• select a range of fields from each line including negative indexing
• avoid writing awk one-liners for simple field extraction

When to choose

• you need quick, readable field selection in shell pipelines
• you want negative indexing or reverse ranges that cut lacks
• you need regex-based field separators with simple syntax
• you want faster performance than awk for simple field extraction

When to avoid

• you need full text-processing power like associative arrays or complex logic - use awk
• you need a drop-in cut replacement with identical flags
• you need multi-file aggregation or reporting features

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

parser developer-tools cli developer-tools files windows cli rust text-processing cut-alternative awk-alternative field-selection shell-utility unix-tools command-line linux macos

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