Sqawk: A fusion of SQL and Awk: Applying SQL to text-based data files
50 points by ossusermivami 1 month ago | 10 comments- alisonatwork 1 month agoI was hoping this was going to be a magnificent awk script that somehow implemented an SQL parser. It is not. This is the one time where "written in Rust" in the headline could have been useful, since it would have avoided me wasting a click. This is more like a simple implementation of ClickHouse/DuckDB/SQLite/etc than anything awkish - it's not a streaming tool, it loads the entire dataset into RAM before doing anything.
- garciasn 1 month agoAgree; I don’t see how this is anything but SQLite-esque. Other than -F for field separators, I see nothing awkish about this at all, but perhaps I didn’t go into the docs enough?
- garciasn 1 month ago
- aslakhellesoy 1 month agoI wonder how this compares to csvkit [1].
- augusto-moura 1 month agoAlso relevant, SQLite supports loading CSV files as virtual tables [1]
- mrbungie 1 month agoAnd don't forget DuckDB [1].
- samgranieri 1 month agoAnd also there’s the \COPY command in postgresql
- samgranieri 1 month ago
- zabzonk 1 month agoas has odbc from way back when
- mrbungie 1 month ago
- smitty1e 1 month agoNow I must work on a hieroglyphic extension, so that I can "Sqawk Like an Egyptian".
I'll show myself out.
- sargstuff 1 month ago(IMHO) perhaps ide box as an intermediate step. aka sqwak box with support for ascii animations.[0] Then, can present a "sqwak like an egyptian" demo. Perhaps extened support for converting data to floppy[1] / modem[2] sounds.
[0] : https://github.com/octobanana/asciimation
[1] :a) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2iswCnV9ec
[2] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k992RwXBbrYb) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCXRerqaJI
- sargstuff 1 month ago
- sargstuff 1 month agosqawk "oberts" extension adding julia and R would faciliate a "something to sqawk about" demo.