You can get a fairly long way with just bash and perl one-liners. I worked in data science in the 2000s, and this was the typical way I would merge .csv files and do other simple data manipulation tasks interactively.
It's not much fun, and the resulting code tends to be fragile. Every line ends up being piped through utilities like cut, join, awk, and jq.
IMO the structured output from pwsh makes those sort of tasks a great deal easier.
It's not much fun, and the resulting code tends to be fragile. Every line ends up being piped through utilities like cut, join, awk, and jq.
IMO the structured output from pwsh makes those sort of tasks a great deal easier.