choose

In the past few days I've been benchmarking my own tool `choose` against BSD cut, GNU cut, and uutils cut and the uutils cut is certainly faster than BSD or GNU versions: https://github.com/theryangeary/choose/blob/master/benchmark...

Check out https://github.com/sstadick/hck and https://github.com/theryangeary/choose - both are alternatives for cut/awk and allows regex based split as well. Though, they don't remove starting/ending whitespaces IIRC. I wrote a script (https://github.com/learnbyexample/regexp-cut) that uses `awk` to provide a `cut`-like tool with regex-based split, negative index, etc. And this will take care of starting/ending whitespaces as that's the default `awk` behavior.

Absolutely nothing should be done with Perl, it is 2023. If you're jonesing for a sed replacement (it even has capture groups) try: https://github.com/chmln/sd Worth being aware of: https://github.com/theryangeary/choose https://github.com/nushell/nushell

Seems similar in intent to choose (https://github.com/theryangeary/choose) as a cut which doesn't suck. The features outlined are very close, I just don't understand what "can split text into lines" is, do you mean that the selected fields can be split into lines? The main advantage of tuc seems to be "templated" outputs.

Quarantine has given me the time I needed to bring a little shell program I've been working on to v1.0.0: https://github.com/theryangeary/choose Haven't been able to bake any bread on account of how I can't find yeast in the grocery store anywhere...might give sourdough another shot.