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Re:Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1 by stevebmark on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:26PM (#24944643)
"q" is the tool you're looking for http://harelba.github.io/q/ . Impossible to Google for, indispensable for CSV manipulation
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Re:Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1 by drran on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:57PM (#24945016)
> As of version 2.0.9, there's no need for any external dependency. Python itself (3.7), and any needed libraries are self-contained inside the installation, isolated from the rest of your system.

Oh, sh*t. I will look for something else.

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Re:Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1 by stevebmark on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:41PM (#24946098)
Is your concern that you don't want to use a library that depends on python?
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Re:Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1 by drran on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:58PM (#24947274)
Nope. I don't want to use the tool which depends on an unsupported copy of Python.
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