choose from your link does look nice for simple column selection. echo -e "foo bar baz" | choose -1 -2 vs awks echo -e "foo bar baz" | awk '{ p

choose from your link does look nice for simple column selection. echo -e "foo bar baz" | choose -1 -2 vs awks echo -e "foo bar baz" | awk '{ print $2, $3}' I love the effort people are putting into reinventing the core unix tools. I think I'll stick with Awk for now though.