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.
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.