On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 01:17:26PM +0200, Solene Rapenne wrote:
> Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> 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.
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