• alisonatwork 4 days ago

    I was hoping this was going to be a magnificent awk script that somehow implemented an SQL parser. It is not. This is the one time where "written in Rust" in the headline could have been useful, since it would have avoided me wasting a click. This is more like a simple implementation of ClickHouse/DuckDB/SQLite/etc than anything awkish - it's not a streaming tool, it loads the entire dataset into RAM before doing anything.

    • garciasn 4 days ago

      Agree; I don’t see how this is anything but SQLite-esque. Other than -F for field separators, I see nothing awkish about this at all, but perhaps I didn’t go into the docs enough?

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    • aslakhellesoy 4 days ago

      I wonder how this compares to csvkit [1].

      [1]: https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/

      • augusto-moura 4 days ago

        Also relevant, SQLite supports loading CSV files as virtual tables [1]

        [1]: https://sqlite.org/csv.html

      • smitty1e 4 days ago

        Now I must work on a hieroglyphic extension, so that I can "Sqawk Like an Egyptian".

        I'll show myself out.

      • sargstuff a day ago

        sqawk "oberts" extension adding julia and R would faciliate a "something to sqawk about" demo.