MAmarcopolis·Sep 13, 2019Submission
Jwalk: Streaming JSON Parser for Unix
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jwalk
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jwalk
Streaming JSON parser for Unix
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Streaming JSON parser for Unix
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| Aug 31 | 2019-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 1 | 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-02 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2 | 2019-09-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 3 | 2019-09-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4 | 2019-09-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 5 | 2019-09-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 6 | 2019-09-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 7 | 2019-09-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 8 | 2019-09-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 9 | 2019-09-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 10 | 2019-09-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 11 | 2019-09-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 12 | 2019-09-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 13 | 2019-09-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sources>parses large documents slowly, but steadily, in memory space proportional to the key depth of the document
If parsing JSON with shell scripts and awk is your idea of the most ideal way to "slowly, but steadily" get the job done.
https://github.com/shellbound/jwalk/blob/master/lib/jwalk/co...
I know that everything looks like a nail if your only tool is a hammer, and it's fun to nail together square wheels out of plywood, but there are actually other tools out there with built-in, compiled, optimized, documented, tested, well maintained, fully compliant JSON parsers.
In TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data filesjwalk parses JSON into a stream of TSV records: https://github.com/shellbound/jwalk/
In TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files