Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV
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HN comment orderI like the idea of using select/put/delete (sql-style syntax) to query non-rdb data storage. It sort of raises the question of, could there be 1 universal language to query relational databases, text file storage (json, csv, etc), and anything else. Or put another way, is there any data storage format that couldn’t be queried by SQL?
Reminds me of https://github.com/johnkerl/miller which is also a go based tool cloning features from tools like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
I've been working on a tool to query/update data structures from the commandline. It's comparable to jq/yq but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML. I'm not aware of anything that attempted to do this so I rolled my own. Let me know what you think
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-30 | Dasel: Query/update data structs from the cmdline. Supports JSON,YAML,TOML,XML | Novalty93 | 45 | 6 |
| 2022-03-07 | Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV filesFirst breakout | wyuenho | 200 | 31 |
| 2024-08-18 | Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSVBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | edward | 492 | 84 |