Alternatives to choose
A command-line tool for selecting fields from text, meant as a simpler alternative to cut and awk. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
choose
A command-line tool for selecting fields from text, meant as a simpler alternative to cut and awk.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as choose.
hck
A close replacement for the cut command that accepts regex delimiters and reorders output columns.
hck stays closer to cut's column selection while adding regex delimiters and column reordering, under MIT or Unlicense instead of GPL-3.0.
GNU Coreutils
The core GNU file, shell and text utilities, including ls, cp, mv and sort.
GNU Coreutils provides the standard cut command, installed by default on most Linux systems, but without negative indexing or regex separators.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
sd
Replace text with a focused command-line tool.
GNU sed
The GNU stream editor for filtering and transforming text from files or pipelines.
xan
Analyze and transform CSV files through composable terminal commands.
jc
Convert command output into JSON for easier scripting.
qsv
Query, transform and validate tabular data from the terminal.
csvkit
Suite of command line tools for converting and working with CSV files.
