Useful Unix commands for exploring data

Re:Useful Unix commands for exploring data by daurnimator on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @11:00AM (#8232459)

The utility to do this is called sponge.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/sponge

    uniq -u movies.csv | sponge movies.csv

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Re:Useful Unix commands for exploring data by rmc on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @11:16AM (#8232544)

sponge is cool. But on debian/ubuntu, it's packaged up in moreutils, which includes a few helpful tools. However a programme called parallel is in moreutils, and that's not as powerful as GNU's parallel. So I often end up uninstalling sponge/moreutils. :(

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Re:Useful Unix commands for exploring data by _delirium on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @11:54AM (#8232758)

There's some attempt underway to fix that fwiw: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749355

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Re:Useful Unix commands for exploring data by oftenwrong on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @12:45PM (#8233079)

GNU Parallel is an indispensable heavy lifter on the command line. I was expecting it to show up in the article.

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Re:Useful Unix commands for exploring data by vacri on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @09:37PM (#8235543)

moreutils for my usage contains 'chronic', which prepended to a command, stops cron from alerting on any non-error output. Big fan.

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Re:Useful Unix commands for exploring data by yekim on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @11:20AM (#8232575)

Thanks for throwing this out there. Never heard of this command before! Definitely a good one for my bag o' tricks.

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