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Parsing and working with tabular data without tab autocomplete on column names sounds like something from the stone age.
by nojito 6y ago
Parsing and working with tabular data without tab autocomplete on column names sounds like something from the stone age.
- smabie 6y agoYou mean like Pandas?
- Hnrobert42 6y agoAwk is ancient. Mock it if you like, but it is your loss.
- nojito 6y agoAwk is great but I don’t get why every single example is using tabular data. It’s strength comes from attacking non-tabular data.
- Hnrobert42 6y agoReally? Like JSON or unstructured text or what?
- im3w1l 6y agoHow do you work with tabular data?
- nojito 6y agoStdout -> fread from r -> data.table -> where ever it needs to go. I churn through hundreds of gigs a day.
- hedora 6y agoI’m not sure what you hope to gain from typing “$1<tab><tab>”.
- nojito 6y agoIt doesn’t make sense when we have tools that give you autocomplete on column names these days. You don’t have to hunt down the column you need and ensure it’s in the same place every time.
- HelloNurse 6y agoNeither my shell scripts, my awk scripts or my Python scripts need autocompletion when I'm done writing them.