Jacinda, a functional Awk (text stream processing on the comamnd-line)
Typed, functional (folds, scans) stream processing backed by Andrew Gallant/burntsushi's regular expressions library. There's a guide here! https://vmchale.github.io/jacinda/
Jacinda, a functional Awk (text stream processing on the comamnd-line) launched on May 10, 2024 with 81 votes, #566 of 4,539 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Jacinda is a command-line tool for processing text streams using typed functional programming. It offers features like folds and scans for data transformation and filtering, powered by a high-performance regular expressions library. The tool is designed for developers and system administrators who need to manipulate text data with functional programming patterns as an alternative to traditional Awk workflows.
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From the sources
Functional, expression-oriented data processing language
APL meets AWK. A command-line tool for summarizing and reporting, powered by Rust's regex library. Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info Jacinda is a functional pattern filtering language, inspired by AWK . There are binaries for some platforms on the releases page . If you are on Mac, you will need to install *-librure.dylib as well. Jacinda is available as a Nix package (thanks to Lukas Epple, who is the maintainer). First, install Rust's regex library . You'll need to put librure.so or librure.dylib etc. in the appropriate place. Many Unix tools output information separated with spaces. We use regular expressions to match relevant lines and then…from hackage.haskell.org
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