head reads CSV row that has multiple lines.
Miller is being offered as "like awk, sed, head.." (emphasis on head - mine) and yes it offers more, but it does not behave "like" the *nix tools it refers to.
Miller is being offered as "like awk, sed, head.." (emphasis on head - mine) and yes it offers more, but it does not behave "like" the *nix tools it refers to.
It just reads lines, doesn't know anything about rows.
So if you want, say, the first 100 rows of a csv that has multiline rows, miller can give it, while head can't.
Head will just print the "N" first lines - whether those are 1, 22, 36 or N actual csv rows.
>Miller is being offered as "like awk, sed, head.." (emphasis on head - mine) and yes it offers more, but it does not behave "like" the nix tools it refers to.*
That's the whole idea.
That it behaves in a way more suited to the csv format, and more coherent than 5-6 different text-focused tools.
The claim is not "this is awk, sed, head, sort remade for csv with identical interfaces and behavior" but "this is a tool to work with csv files and do what you'd normally have to jump through hoops to do with awk, sed, head, sort which don't understand csv structure".