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Text as a Database - Linux tool for performing SQL-like statements on text data

https://github.com/harelba/q

by harelba • 14 years ago

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drKarl• 14 years ago

Interesting concept... but you might as well use the standard tools.

Look at one of the examples:

q "SELECT COUNT(1) FROM exampledatafile"

The output will be exactly as if we ran the wc -l

I would rather use wc -l

harelba• 14 years ago

The standard tools are great, and I love them - It's not a tool for replacing them. The example above is the simplest one so people would get the concept (I would use wc -l in that case as well). However, once you need more complex stuff (such as the total-size-per-date example), the standard tools are not enough, not to mention expressions on numeric data, limits, sorting by expression, etc. I kindly offer you to read the complete README in the link, maybe it'll change your mind. Thanks.

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