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I'm in on the "shit on microsoft for hard to use formats train" but as someone who did a LOT of .docx parsing - it turned into zen when I realized that I can ju

I'm in on the "shit on microsoft for hard to use formats train" but as someone who did a LOT of .docx parsing - it turned into zen when I realized that I can just convert my docs into the easily parsed .html5 using something like pandoc. This is a good blog post and Xan is a really neat terminal tool.

kbouck 2y ago
Xan looks great. Miller is another great cli tool for transforming data among csv, tsv, json and other formats. https://miller.readthedocs/ https://miller.readthedocs/
- emmelaich 2y ago
  https://miller.readthedocs.io/ https://miller.readthedocs.io/
  - kbouck 2y ago
    trimmed the version path off and went a bit too far! thanks.