InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now. Learn more →
Miller Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to miller
-
-
InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
-
-
-
-
-
-
jc
CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.
-
SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
-
-
-
dasel
Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files with a single tool. Supports conversion between formats and can be used as a Go package.
-
-
-
-
-
-
csvkit
A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.
-
-
tsv-utils
eBay's TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files. Filtering, statistics, sampling, joins and more.
-
-
-
SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better miller alternative or higher similarity.
miller discussion
miller reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of miller.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-27.
-
XAN: A Modern CSV-Centric Data Manipulation Toolkit for the Terminal
I recently came across https://github.com/johnkerl/miller. I don't know how these tools compare.
- A Love Letter to the CSV Format
-
Transforming TSV data using ColdFusion & Miller (Command line FTW!)
The syntax for Miller isn't too complex and there's a ReadTheDocs website dedicated to the flags, verbs & functions and also hosts a bunch of FAQs & examples.
- Qsv: Efficient CSV CLI Toolkit
-
jq 1.7 Released
jq and miller[1] are essential parts of my toolbelt, right up there with awk and vim.
[1]: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
-
Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed
> This works really well if your problem can be solved in one or two liners.
My personal comfort threshold is around the 100-line mark. It's even possible to write maintainable shell scripts up to 500 lines, but it mostly depends on the problem you're trying to solve, and the discipline of the programmer to follow best practices (use sane defaults, ShellCheck, etc.).
> It go bad very quickly when, say, you have two CSV files and want to join them the sql-way.
In that case we're talking about structured data, and, yeah, Perl or Python would be easier to work with. That said, depending on the complexity of the CSV, you can still go a long way with plain Bash with IFS/read(1) or tr(1) to split CSV columns. This wouldn't be very robust, but there are tools that handle CSV specifically[1], which can be composed in a shell script just fine.
So it's always a balancing act of being productive quickly with a shell script, or reaching out for a programming language once the tools aren't a good fit, or maintenance becomes an issue.
[1]: https://miller.readthedocs.io/
-
Need help on cleaning this data!!
where mlr is from https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
-
Running weekly average
if this class of problems (i.e., csv/tsv data) is your main target you may find miller (https://github.com/johnkerl/miller) much more useful in the long run
-
GQL: A new SQL like query language for .git files written in Rust
That said, you may be interested in Miller (https://github.com/johnkerl/miller) which provides similar capabilities for CSV, JSON, and XML files. It doesn't use a SQL grammar, but that's just the proverbial lipstick on the thing. I'm not the author, but I have used it and I see some parallels in use cases at the very least.
- johnkerl/miller: Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
-
A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
www.influxdata.com | 19 May 2025
Stats
Basic miller repo stats
67
9,289
9.0
4 days ago
johnkerl/miller is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of miller is Go.
Sponsored
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
www.influxdata.com