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There are applications that let you query structured text with SQL. For example, https://github.com/dinedal/textql https://github.com/dinedal/textql there are

• networked 12y ago
  There is a lot of tools of this kind [1] but nearly all of them work with CSV or other delimiter-separated data. What made recutils stand out for me is that it has tools to modify files in place, not just select data from them, and its file format is different. The rec format is interesting because it is a specification for what others have used before without one. It seems quite readable and does not suffer from the ",,,,,," problem of CSV. [1] Here's the list of ones I have run into so far: * https://github.com/harelba/q https://github.com/harelba/q * https://github.com/tobimensch/termsql https://github.com/tobimensch/termsql * https://github.com/samuel/squawk https://github.com/samuel/squawk * https://github.com/tjunier/sqawk https://github.com/tjunier/sqawk I've also written one: https://github.com/dbohdan/sqawk https://github.com/dbohdan/sqawk. It turned out I wasn't the only one to come up with the name.