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A list of command-line tools for manipulating structured text data

15 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 6 stories, 9 comments · first 2016-05-07 · latest 2025-02-06

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  1. Datasette Visidata More tools at: https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools I often also use Pycharm community edition with multicursor (Mark next occurrence in keymap) to live edit Text files
    comment by sandreas · 2025-02-06 · in Ask HN: How Do You Clean and Structure Data at Work?
  2. Another one for the big list: https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools In fact it's already on it 6 times.
    comment by frou_dh · 2024-08-18 · in Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV
  3. …good for the future of Python scripts. I have already adopted pipx run script.py in a project: https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools/blob/d8dc1a... . It has been convenient and has not caused me problems so far.
    comment by networked · 2023-08-15 · in Ask HN: Share a shell script you like
  4. I have made a repository cataloguing tools like this: https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools .
    comment by networked · 2023-03-16 · in Miller: Like Awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
  5. …awk. This might be useful in straightforward cases. For all others I’d recommend to have a look at https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools which lists tools to handle structure text formats
    comment by xrayarx · 2022-12-14 · in Using Commandline to Process CSV Files
  6. There is also hred https://github.com/danburzo/hred Which extracts XML and HTML as JSON. Also cool: https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools/ " A list of command line tools for manipulating structured text data "
    comment by the-printer · 2022-11-12 · in Show HN: Xq – command-line XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor
  7. Not a specific approach to your problem, but a resource that may be useful is https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools . It lists an extensive set of command line tools useful for working with this class of files.
    comment by jondegenhardt · 2018-10-21 · in Ask HN: Best way to do heavy csv processing?
  8. If you'd like to see some more tools for dealing with structured text take a look, https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools a pretty nice list.
    comment by derimagia · 2018-04-02 · in Gron: A command line tool that makes JSON greppable
  9. …started a list of command line tools for querying, processing and converting structured text data: https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools .
    comment by networked · 2016-11-15 · in Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?