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Miller is like sed, awk, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data
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such as CSV.
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With Miller, you get to use named fields without needing to count
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positional indices.
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This is something the Unix toolkit always could have done, and
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arguably always should have done. It operates on key-value-pair
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data while the familiar Unix tools operate on integer-indexed
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fields: if the natural data structure for the latter is the array,
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then Miller's natural data structure is the insertion-ordered hash
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map. This encompasses a variety of data formats, including but not
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limited to the familiar CSV. (Miller can handle positionally-indexed
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data as a special case.)
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