xcut 0.0.11

Xcut is an Enhanced cut command, which is used to help grep column.

# Xcut Xcut is an Enhanced cut command, which is used to help grep column.

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## Install

pip install xcut pip3 install xcut

xcut –help

## Usage Let’s test a file named test.csv

> ~ cat test/test.csv name,gender,job Jack,male,coder Lucy,female,artist

Cut fields

> ~ xcut -f job,name test/test.csv job,name coder,Jack artist,Lucy

### Set title type The default title type is head: -t head

> ~ xcut -f name,gender test/test.csv

Set title type to index: -t index

> ~ xcut -f 1,3 -t index test/test.csv 1,3 name,job Jack,coder Lucy,artist

Set title type to custom(–titles TITLES)

> ~ xcut -f ‘职业,姓名’ –titles ‘姓名,性别,职业’ test/test.csv -od $’t’ 职业 姓名 job name coder Jack artist Lucy

Set title type to kv(-t kv)

> ~ echo ‘key1=v1,key2=v2,key3=v3’ | xcut -f key3,key2 -t kv key3,key2 v3,v2

### Set input delimiter(d)

> ~ xcut -f job,name test/test.csv -d ‘,’ -od ‘`’ job`name coder`Jack artist`Lucy

### Set output delimiter(od)

> ~ xcut -f job,name test/test.csv -od ‘`’ job`name coder`Jack artist`Lucy

### pretty output You could set the output delimiter(od), also you can print it via pretty

> ~ xcut -f ‘职业,姓名’ –titles ‘姓名,性别,职业’ test/test.csv -od $’tt’ –pretty 职业 姓名 —————————————- job name coder Jack artist Lucy

### Use csv format Not only you could parse csv format file with –from-csv:

$ echo ‘Lucy,”98,99”,23’ | python xcut -f scores,name –titles name,scores,age scores,name “98,Lucy

$ echo ‘Lucy,”98,99”,23’ | python xcut -f scores,name –titles name,scores,age –from-csv scores,name 98,99,Lucy

You could also save the output to csv format with(–to-csv)

$ echo ‘Lucy,”98,99”,23’ | python xcut -f scores,name –titles name,scores,age –from-csv –to-csv scores,name “98,99”,Lucy

## Required 1. python>=3.5 2. click