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'tab', a new command-line utility for processing tabular text files seriously

It's actually a statically-typed, type-inferred declarative non-Turing-complete language for querying tabular text files. (Such csv/tsv or webserver logs.)

It's designed to fill the niche between SQL and traditional UNIX utilities like cut/sort/uniq/awk.

The source and documentation is here: http://bitbucket.org/tkatchev/tab

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Re:'tab', a new command-line utility for processing tabular ... by bob917 on Monday December 08, 2014 @12:45PM (#8717766)
Great tool. A small tip for fellow dyslexic users. Create an alias named bat.