A practical overview of most useful Unix tools

• learn_gnuawk

  8 1,052 2.3 Shell

  Example based guide to mastering GNU awk

• invoice

  2 17 0.0 Shell

  Calculate a billable amount, hours and days logged for 1 or more projects. (by nickjj)

> Unsurprisingly I disagree with the post's description of awk being an "advanced command".

I think it can be pretty advanced, for me awk is one of those tools where I still feel like I need to write a paragraph of comments to explain 1 line of code.

For example: https://github.com/nickjj/invoice/blob/master/invoice#L11-L3...

Keep in mind I don't really "know" awk. I cobbled that together from a few examples.

NOTE: I wrote that script 3.5 years ago and I know there's questionable patterns in other areas of the script that's not highlighted like using a bunch of separate echo calls instead of a heredoc.

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• jq

  306 25,063 0.0 C

  Discontinued Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq] (by stedolan)

  

• ngs

  94 1,360 4.0 C

  Next Generation Shell (NGS)

  

> No "proper programming language" is capable of ergonomically piping between programs.

Solved. https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs

I'm the author. Frustrated with exactly this situation I created Next Generation Shell. It's a "proper programming language" on one hand but domain-specific for "DevOps"y scripting on another. So sane syntax, data structures, error handling, multiple dispatch on one hand but also syntax for running external programs, pipes and redirects.

You are welcome!

• xsv

  64 10,080 0.0 Rust

  A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.

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