datatools provides a variety of command line programs for working with data in different formats as well as to ease Posix shell scripting (e.g. writing scripts that run under Bash). The tools are group as data, strings and scripting.
Command line utilities for simplifying work with CSV, JSON, Excel Workbooks and plain text files or content.
Compiled versions are provided for Linux (amd64), Mac OS X (amd64), Windows 10 (amd64) and Raspbian (ARM7). See https://github.com/caltechlibrary/datatools/releases.
Use “-help” option for a full list of options for each utility (e.g. csv2json -help
).
datatools provides the string command for working with text strings (limited to memory available).
This is commonly needed when cleanup data for analysis. The string command was created for when the old Unix
stand bys- grep, awk, sed, tr are unwieldly or inconvient. string provides operations are common in most language
like, trimming, spliting, and transforming letter case. The string command also makes it easy to join
JSON string arrays into single a string using a delimiter or split a string into a JSON array
based on a delimiter. The form of the command is string [OPTIONS] [ACTION] [ARCTION_PARAMETERS...]
string toupper "one two three"
Would yield “ONE TWO THREE”.
Some of the features included
See string for full details
Various utilities for simplifying work on the command line.
Compiled versions are provided for Linux (amd64), Mac OS X (amd64), Windows 10 (amd64) and Raspbian (ARM7). See https://github.com/caltechlibrary/datatools/releases.
Use the utilities try “-help” option for a full list of options.
See INSTALL.md for details for installing pre-compiled versions of the programs.
datatools are go get-able. If you have go v1.8 (or newer) you can install with the command below.
go get github.com/caltechlibrary/datatools/...