Re: [NEW] textproc/miller

Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2018/08/02 12:26, Frederic Cambus wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 08:30:59PM +0200, Frederic Cambus wrote:
> >
> > > Here is a new port: textproc/miller.
> > >
> > > From DESCR:
> > >
> > > Miller operates on key-value-pair data while the familiar Unix tools operate
> > > on integer-indexed fields: if the natural data structure for the latter is the
> > > array, then Miller's natural data structure is the insertion-ordered hash map.
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Comments? OK?
> >
> > Ping. Anyone willing to look at this?
> >
>
> 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.