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mlrcli_mlrrc.go Make 'go build' work, without need for 'go build mlr.go' (#622) 2021-08-06 10:08:21 -04:00
mlrcli_parse.go Make 'go build' work, without need for 'go build mlr.go' (#622) 2021-08-06 10:08:21 -04:00
README.md mlr --help split up (#582) 2021-06-28 00:06:22 -04:00

Logic for parsing the Miller command line.

  • src/cli is the flag-parsing logic for supporting Miller's command-line interface. When you type something like mlr --icsv --ojson put '$sum = $a + $b' then filter '$sum > 1000' myfile.csv, it's the CLI parser which makes it possible for Miller to construct a CSV record-reader, a transformer chain of put then filter, and a JSON record-writer.
  • src/cliutil contains datatypes for the CLI-parser, which was split out to avoid a Go package-import cycle.
  • I don't use the Go flag package. The flag package is quite fine; Miller's command-line processing is multi-purpose between serving CLI needs per se as well as for manpage/docfile generation, and I found it simplest to roll my own command-line handling here. More importantly, some Miller verbs such as sort take flags more than once -- mlr sort -f field1 -n field2 -f field3 -- which is not supported by the flag package.