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If you work with this sort of data a lot, you might want to look at R.

• brudgers 11y ago
  Your comment brings up an interesting point. Sed, Awk, etc. are single purpose tools and that's one of the reasons their so long lived according to the common wisdom of *Nix. The other side of that wisdom is that once you build a swiss-army-knife, it gets harder to argue against just using a full blown programming language, like R, TCL, Perl, Python, etc.
  • uxcn 11y ago
    I use R, and I still use ad-hoc commands from time to time too. I guess mlr and xsv lie somewhere between, which I've personally never really considered. R is specifically designed for manipulating datasets though, and has a lot more functionality/dependencies. If you're already familiar with the language, and okay with the dependencies, it is vastly more powerful, more succinct, and arguably easier to use. Otherwise, something in between probably still makes sense.