bcut is a improved version of the cut unix utility implemented in python3.2. It improves upon the original by adding it ability to count bytes, characters or fields from the end of the line.
Consider following example
pkg-name-VERSION-patch longer-pkg-name-VERSION-patch very-very-long-pkg-name-VERSION-patch
How can you remove the last 2 fields from each line? With cut you can't, since it always counts the fields from the start of the line. bcut aims to improve upon that.
I've decided to implement it in python since it looked like a nice exercise in python programming.
- All the features of coreutils cut utility
- Counting of fields from the end.
- >= Python 3.2
Build and install by running:
$ python setup.py build $ sudo python setup.py install
usage: bcut [-h] (-b LIST | -c LIST | -f LIST) [-d DELIM] [-n] [--complement]
[-i] [-s] [--output-delimiter STRING] [--version]
[files [files ...]]
Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.
positional arguments:
files List of input FILEs to be processed. If none are
specified the input will be taken from stdin
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-b, --bytes LIST display only these bytes
-c, --characters LIST display only these characters
-f, --fields LIST select only these fields; also print any line that
contains no delimiter character, unless the -s option
is specified
-d, --delimiter DELIM use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter
-n Do not split multi-byte characters (no-op for now).
--complement Complement the set of selected bytes, characters or
fields
-i, --invert Count butes, characters or fields from the end of the
line
-s, --only-delimited do not print lines not containing delimiters
--output-delimiter STRING
use STRING as the output delimiter. The default is to
use the inpt delimiter
--version show program's version number and exit
Use one, and only one of -b, -c or -f. Each LIST is made up of one
range, or many ranges separated by commas. Selected input is written
in the same order that it is read, and is written exactly once.
Each range is one of:
N N'th byte, character or field, counted from 1
N- from N'th byte, character or field, to end of line
N-M from N'th to M'th (included) byte, character or field
-M from first to M'th (included) byte, character or field
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
See Releases page for all downloads.
- Pawel 'l0ner' Soltys <pwslts@gmail.com>
GNU GPLv3
Copyright (C) 2014 Pawel 'l0ner' Soltys <pwslts@gmail.com>
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