A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk. More information: <https://github.com/theryangeary/choose>.

• Print the 5th item from a line (starting from 0):
  choose 4
• Print the first, 3rd, and 5th item from a line, where items are separated by ':' instead of whitespace:
  choose --field-separator ':' 0 2 4
• Print everything from the 2nd to 5th item on the line, including the 5th:
  choose 1:4
• Print everything from the 2nd to 5th item on the line, excluding the 5th:
  choose --exclusive 1:4
• Print the beginning of the line to the 3rd item:
  choose :2
• Print all items from the beginning of the line until the 3rd item (exclusive):
  choose --exclusive :2
• Print all items from the 3rd to the end of the line:
  choose 2:
• Print the last item from a line:
  choose -1

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