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DuckDB as the New jq (www.pgrs.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] bugsmith 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Love this. Always interesting to see novel ways of querying data in the terminal, and I agree that jq's syntax is difficult to remember.

I actually prefer nu(shell) for this though. On the lobste.rs thread for this blog, a user shared this:

| get license.key -i
| uniq --count
| rename license

This outputs the following:

╭───┬──────────────┬───────╮
│ # │    license   │ count │
├───┼──────────────┼───────┤
│ 0 │ bsd-3-clause │    23 │
│ 1 │ apache-2.0   │     5 │
│ 2 │              │     2 │
╰───┴──────────────┴───────╯

[–] Kissaki 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Haha, I tried querying in Nushell before reading this and I was sure there was a better way. And indeed there is (especially since I was missing uniq). I'm still learning the available operators, but I enjoy the shell a lot, as well as its promised capabilities.

[–] bugsmith 2 points 8 months ago

I really like Nushell. I would not run it as a daily driver currently, as it mostly doesn't win me over from Fish, feature-wise, but I love having it available for anything CLI date pipeline work I need to do.