Install tuc with Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, Nix, zypper

Project links

• Homepage
• Package manager page

Commands and aliases

• tuc

Project history

The changelog records tuc 0.1.0 on 2020-05-30 with multi-character delimiter cutting, delimiter compression, delimiter replacement, and omission of non-delimited lines. It reached 1.0.0 in early 2023, when regex support became enabled by default.

Subsequent releases focused on making the small utility more complete without changing its role: 1.1.0 improved errors and documentation, 1.2.0 added JSON output, and 1.3.0 added file-path input, mmap support, fixed-memory line cutting, fallback output for out-of-bounds fields, and performance improvements.

Adoption history

The README documents installation through Cargo and prebuilt binaries, and thanks community package maintainers for Arch Linux, openSUSE, Homebrew, MacPorts, Debian, Ubuntu, Nix, and other package ecosystems. The supplied package facts also show apk, Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, and zypper entries.

tuc's adoption pattern is the Rust CLI replacement pattern: it does not replace `cut` for POSIX compatibility, but gives users a packaged tool for cases where `cut` lacks negative fields, regex delimiters, line slicing, JSON output, or custom formatting.

How it is used

The README examples show rearranging fields, joining them back with the delimiter, replacing delimiters, selecting ranges, using negative indexes, cutting with regular expressions, emitting JSON, cutting with multi-character delimiters, using greedy delimiter behavior, formatting selected fields, cutting lines, and operating on UTF-8 characters or bytes.

The help text documents stdin and file-path input, `--fixed-memory` for large-line cases, `--no-mmap`, `NO_COLOR` handling, and a no-regex build through `cargo install tuc --no-default-features` for smaller binaries.

Why package nerds care

For package-manager users, tuc is a compact example of a modern Rust CLI that deliberately lives next to a classic Unix command. It is package-worthy because it adds behavior users often script around with awk, sed, cut, perl, or Python one-liners.

Its changelog and README are also unusually explicit about maintainer concerns: binary size, regex default features, generated man pages, community packages, mmap, fixed-memory processing, and dependency removal.

Timeline

• 2020: 0.1.0 released with multi-character delimiter cutting and delimiter transformation features.
• 2022: 0.11.0 released with MacPorts documentation and generated man page notes.
• 2023: 1.0.0 released with regex support enabled by default.
• 2024: 1.2.0 added JSON output.
• 2025: 1.3.0 added mmap, file-path input, fixed-memory line cutting, and 2x to 5x performance improvements depending on workload.

Related projects

• The README positions tuc relative to the standard Unix `cut` command.
• The README points to a WebAssembly tuc playground and to Cargo/crates.io distribution.

Sources

• https://github.com/riquito/tuc
• https://github.com/riquito/tuc/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• official git tags from https://github.com/riquito/tuc
• source_facts.package-manager