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Miller v5.0.0: Autodetected line-endings, in-place mode, user-defined functions

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I had no idea what this was and the release notes don't make it obvious, so from the main github page:

> Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON

http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc

https://github.com/johnkerl/miller

This is great - Now I just need to somehow remember this program when I next have a need for it...

Same. If they had called it something stupid like greptar, awkerator, or CHUCK NORRIS'S CSVIVIFIER I might actually be able to recall the name.

http://johnkerl.org/miller-releases/miller-5.0.0/doc/etymolo..., if that helps ;)

Wow - looks brilliant. I'll have to try it. I've always wanted awk with a native understanding of csv, tsv, json, etc.

Does it have a binary for Windows?

Not yet but it is a work in progress (the next to-do after the 5.0.0 release)

Thanks. I'll try it on Linux in the meanwhile.

PS. The doc is really great but very hard to read - I think it's that background you're using.

thanks!

i very much like the background artistically, and it's unobtrusive for me, but it seems that on different monitors / browsers it's less so. in any case, the background is now white. thanks for the feedback!

Thanks. For me, that's a vast improvement.

/home/skanga/mlr.linux.x86_64: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /home/skanga/mlr.linux.x86_64)

It would be useful to allow downloads of a binary that is compiled without any dependencies.

Thanks. I get genuine static on Mac; some issues with x86_64. I'll dig deeper this evening.

Also found a problem in the doc at http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc/build.html

The downloaded zip file does not contain a ./configure

$ ./configure bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

I needed to manually run "autoreconf -fiv" before I could run the ./configure command.

Sorry, that is intentional but could be more clear:

http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc/build.html#From_git_clone_usi...

docs updated at http://johnkerl.org/miller-releases/miller-5.0.0/doc/build.h...

and, https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/131

x86_64 binary fixed -- thank you!

How does this compare with similar tools like jq? I see CSV is a data input option.

More here http://johnkerl.org/miller-releases/miller-5.0.0/doc/why.htm... but TL;DR is Miller handles several different file formats; jq is for JSON.

Well, TIL that there's an awesome new tool I need immediately :)

regarding binaries -- at https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v5.0.0 there are now macosx, linux i686 static, and linux x86_64 static binaries

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