PPpplonski86·Dec 1, 2018Submission
Vnlog – a toolkit for manipulating data in an ASCII table
3 points · Open discussiondkogan
vnlog
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dkogan / vnlog
vnlog
Process labelled tabular ASCII data using normal UNIX tools
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Process labelled tabular ASCII data using normal UNIX tools
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 2 | 10 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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4 sourcesShow HN: Vnlog – a toolkit for manipulating data in an ASCII table
4 points · Open discussionThere's also this:
https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog
This is effectively a set of wrappers around awk, sort, join, etc that knows about field names, and lets you use the vanilla shell tools in a much nicer way. It's exactly what you want for the 99% use case. If your problem is complicated enough that you feel like sql is what you want, maybe leaving the shell is ok at that point.
In Q: Run SQL Directly on CSV FilesGoogle doesn't know about qawk. A more general toolkit that does the same thing and (presumably) more:
http://github.com/dkogan/vnlog
In Learn just a little Awk (2010)