desift is a tool for formatting and filtering text data. It occupies
a niche that falls between spartan (but highly leveraged) shell
utilities such as "cut" and full-featured (but often application- or
technology-specific) template engines. As a result, it is a remarkably
flexible tool that can solve 80% or 90% of your template-based
formatting problems. It's particularly effective when combined
in a pipeline with programs that query a data source or perform
non-interactive text editing.
