DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team

choose is a human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk. It is not meant to be a drop-in replacement for these tools, but rather a simple and intuitive tool to reach for when the basics of awk or cut will do, but the overhead of getting them to behave should not be necessary.

Features: * terse field selection syntax similar to Python's list slices * negative indexing from end of line * optional start/end index * zero-indexed * reverse ranges * slightly faster than cut for sufficiently long inputs, much faster than awk * regular expression field separators using Rust's regex syntax This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate "choose": - choose