choose

name	choose
description	Use this skill when the user wants to extract fields from text, cut columns from output, or process structured text data in shell pipelines.

choose Plugin

A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and sometimes awk. Extract fields from lines of text with intuitive syntax.

Commands

Text Processing

• choose text extract — Extract fields from text input

Utility

• choose _ _ — Passthrough to choose CLI

Usage Examples

• "Extract fields from text"
• "Cut columns from output"
• "Select specific fields"
• "Process text data"

Installation

brew install choose-rust

Or via Cargo:

cargo install choose

Examples

# Extract first field
echo "a:b:c" | choose text extract 0 --field-separator ":"

# Extract range of fields
echo "a b c d e" | choose text extract 1:3

# Extract last field
echo "a b c" | choose text extract -1

# Custom separators
cat data.csv | choose text extract 0,2 --field-separator ","

# Any choose command with passthrough
echo "a b c" | choose _ _ 1
echo "a,b,c" | choose _ _ -1 --field-separator ","

Key Features

• Intuitive - Human-friendly syntax
• Fast - Rust-powered speed
• Negative - Negative indices
• Ranges - Range selection
• Separators - Custom separators
• Multiple - Multiple fields
• Pipes - Pipe-friendly
• Cut - cut alternative
• Awk - awk alternative
• Simple - Simple syntax

Notes

• Supports negative indices
• Great for shell pipelines
• Faster than cut for many cases
• Pipe-friendly design