Not just "regular awk", but "regular most things", like head, tail, grep, etc. The "things" just need to be 8-bit/NUL handling clean and the data could even ha

Not just "regular awk", but "regular most things", like head, tail, grep, etc. The "things" just need to be 8-bit/NUL handling clean and the data could even have binary fields. I mean, if there is a library like Python/Go/etc. that you especially trust to write a streaming converter then that is a fine approach, but otherwise see both https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31352517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31352517 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31352704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31352704 (at least!)