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head reads CSV row that has multiple lines. Miller is being offered as "like awk, sed, head.." (emphasis on head - mine) and yes it offers more, but it does no

• 0cf8612b2e1e 4y ago
  Miller is designed around the idea of structured data. This is a higher bar than naively manipulating text, and the user has to be more deliberate to extract fields. Doing cli manipulation of a csv that contains quoted commas is challenging with the standard tools.
• coldtea 4y ago
  >head reads CSV row that has multiple lines. It just reads lines, doesn't know anything about rows. So if you want, say, the first 100 rows of a csv that has multiline rows, miller can give it, while head can't. Head will just print the "N" first lines - whether those are 1, 22, 36 or N actual csv rows. >Miller is being offered as "like awk, sed, head.." (emphasis on head - mine) and yes it offers more, but it does not behave "like" the nix tools it refers to.* That's the whole idea. That it behaves in a way more suited to the csv format, and more coherent than 5-6 different text-focused tools. The claim is not "this is awk, sed, head, sort remade for csv with identical interfaces and behavior" but "this is a tool to work with csv files and do what you'd normally have to jump through hoops to do with awk, sed, head, sort which don't understand csv structure".