There's also this: https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog This is effectively a set of wrappers around awk, sort, join, etc that knows about field names, and lets

There's also this: https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog This is effectively a set of wrappers around awk, sort, join, etc that knows about field names, and lets you use the vanilla shell tools in a much nicer way. It's exactly what you want for the 99% use case. If your problem is complicated enough that you feel like sql is what you want, maybe leaving the shell is ok at that point.