That’s the only think I know how to do with awk, and I reach for it a lot! cut is purpose-built for that function, and is supposedly easier to understand; but it doesn’t seem to just work like awk does.
I think cut is a little bit finicky because two consecutive occurrences of the cell delimiter counts, and gives an empty cell when selecting the index between them.
choose is a bit better at this from what I remember, which is like the modern cut, I believe, of course written in Rust.
Otherwise Nushell excels at this sort of thing, although I don’t really use it.
I have been using Nushell, and you’re right, it is great at parsing input. Commands like detect columns and parse are very nice, and have been supplanting awk for me.
That’s the only think I know how to do with awk, and I reach for it a lot!
cutis purpose-built for that function, and is supposedly easier to understand; but it doesn’t seem to just work like awk does.I think
cutis a little bit finicky because two consecutive occurrences of the cell delimiter counts, and gives an empty cell when selecting the index between them.chooseis a bit better at this from what I remember, which is like the moderncut, I believe, of course written in Rust.Otherwise Nushell excels at this sort of thing, although I don’t really use it.
Oh, I hadn’t heard about
choose!I have been using Nushell, and you’re right, it is great at parsing input. Commands like
detect columnsandparseare very nice, and have been supplanting awk for me.