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It's interesting watching these types of tools get re-invented periodically:

https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream

It shows the unix model of many small, composable tools is very powerful, but also shows that POSIX is missing some essential pieces that everyone keeps trying to add/reinvent.

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Lots of them out there. Here's one that repurposes the extends the standard unix tools to know about comments and column labels: https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog/

If have any more links, please post them! I am a fan of collecting such tools.

I just published dsq [0] for running SQL queries against CSV/JSON/Excel/Parquet/etc or just converting those files to JSON.

[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation/tree/main/runn...

Pretty sure JSON isn't part of POSIX.

Correct, but the point is that POSIX is missing something - maybe a standardized text format? These tools all first convert from various formats into a single, queryable format, then build further tools on top of that queryable format.