hck

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "# \ud83e\ude93 hck\n\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\n  \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/sstadick/hck/actions?query=workflow%3ACheck\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://github.com/sstadick/hck/workflows/Check/badge.svg\" alt=\"Build Status\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n  \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/crates/l/hck.svg\" alt=\"license\"\u003e\n  \u003ca href=\"https://crates.io/crates/hck\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/crates/v/hck.svg?colorB=319e8c\" alt=\"Version info\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n  A sharp \u003ci\u003ecut(1)\u003c/i\u003e clone.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\n_`hck` is a shortening of `hack`, a rougher form of `cut`._\n\nA close to drop in replacement for cut that can use a regex delimiter instead of a fixed string.\nAdditionally this tool allows for specification of the order of the output columns using the same column selection syntax as cut (see below for examples).\n\nNo single feature of `hck` on its own makes it stand out over `awk`, `cut`, `xsv` or other such tools. Where `hck` excels is making common things easy, such as reordering output fields, or splitting records on a weird delimiter.\nIt is meant to be simple and easy to use while exploring datasets.\nThink of this as filling a gap between `cut` and `awk`.\n\n`hck` is dual-licensed under MIT or the [UNLICENSE](https://unlicense.org/).\n\n## Features\n\n- Reordering of output columns! i.e. if you use `-f4,2,8` the output columns will appear in the order `4`, `2`, `8`\n- Delimiter treated as a regex, i.e. you can split on multiple spaces without an extra pipe to `tr`!\n- Specification of output delimiter\n- Selection of columns by header string literal with the `-F` option, or by regex by setting the `-r` flag\n- Input files will be automatically decompressed if their file extension is recognizable and a local binary exists to perform the decompression (similar to ripgrep). See [Decompression](#decompression).\n- Output can be gzip compressed using the multi-threaded compressors from [`gzp`](https://github.com/sstadick/gzp) with `-Z` flag\n  - This gzipped output is in BGZF format and can be indexed and queried with `tabix`\n- Exclude fields by index or",
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