theryangeary/choose
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A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut (and sometimes awk)
6 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2020-05-14 · latest 2025-09-23
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…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...
comment by theryangeary · 2025-09-23 · in The allure of new languages vs. the necessity of problem-solving -
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 (…
comment by asicsp · 2023-08-28 · in CLI text processing with GNU awk -
…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
comment by recuter · 2023-01-19 · in The State of the Awk (2020) -
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…
comment by masklinn · 2022-06-13 · in Show HN: Tuc – When cut doesn’t cut it -
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Show HN: Choose – An alternative to cut and sometimes awkstory by theryangeary · 2020-06-05 · 45 comments
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…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…
comment by theryangeary · 2020-05-14 · in Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?