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• regexp-cut

  4 15 1.8 Shell

  Use awk to provide cut like syntax for field extraction

I saw about `hck` recently on twitter, was impressed to see support for compressed files. From the current todo list, I hope complement is implemented for sure.

I see Negative index is currently "unlikely". I'm writing a similar tool [0], but with bash+awk. I solved the negative index support with a `-n` option, which changes the range syntax to `:` instead of `-` character.

My biggest trouble came with literal field separator [1], because FS can only be specified as a string in awk and backslash is a metacharacter for both string and regexp.

[0] https://github.com/learnbyexample/regexp-cut

[1] https://learnbyexample.github.io/escaping-madness-awk-litera...

• tac

  2 108 4.3 Rust

  A high-performance, cross-platform file reverse utility (by neosmart)

  

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