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Show HN: Tsv2csv Clojure Powered Command Line Tool

2 pointsby CameronBarreover 5 years ago

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CameronBarreover 5 years ago
Hi everyone, author here, I put this small utility together while exploring the idea of using existing tools to import macroeconomic data from the BLS vs a pure homemade solution with a full-on Clojure project.<p>With that project I ended up settling on using wget, my tsv2csv tool, and pgfutter for streaming data into postgres and GNU parallel to create and import all tables at once.<p>I couldn&#x27;t resist creating this tool at the time because, honestly, I write LISP faster than I adjust to conventional tooling like sed and awk.<p>It&#x27;s still a goal to learn those better, but when it came to full on scrubbing of rows and columns, I already had code like tsv2csv in my homegrown BLS importer and I knew how simple it was.<p>It&#x27;s made to participate in streaming so it processes line by line from stdin to stdout.<p>Thanks!