On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 01:17:26PM +0200, Solene Rapenne wrote: > Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > DESCR doesn't do a great job of selling it - it seems something akin to jq > > but handles more input formats, but that DESCR doesn't really show it. How > > about a bit more borrowed from http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc/? > > > > ==== > > Miller (mlr) is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data > > such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON. You get to work with your data using > > named fields, without needing to count positional column indices. It is > > pipe-friendly and interoperates with the Unix toolkit. > > > > It operates on key-value-pair data while the familiar Unix tools operate > > on integer-indexed fields. This encompasses a variety of data formats, > > including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, and JSON. (Miller > > can handle positionally-indexed data as a special case.) > > ==== > > > > OK either way. > > I agree that this DESCR is more explanative about the software than the > current one.
I also agree, and I imported miller with the DESCR suggested by sthen@. Thanks to both of you for testing.
