Indeed, and with a bit of tuning (e.g., using mawk for most things), one can get quite good performance. [1] The project also provides a translator from Datalog

Indeed, and with a bit of tuning (e.g., using mawk for most things), one can get quite good performance. [1] The project also provides a translator from Datalog to bash scripts [2]. Disclaimer: I was one of the authors [1] https://www.thomasrebele.org/publications/2018_report_bashlog.pdf https://www.thomasrebele.org/publications/2018_report_bashlo... [2] https://www.thomasrebele.org/projects/bashlog/datalog https://www.thomasrebele.org/projects/bashlog/datalog