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.
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...