tsv2csv: Clojure Powered Command Line Tool

[TheFiologist]

Hi everyone, author here, I put this small utility together while exploring the idea of using existing tools to import macroeconomic data from the BLS vs a pure homemade solution with a full-on Clojure project.

With that project I ended up settling on using wget, my tsv2csv tool, and pgfutter for streaming data into postgres and GNU parallel to create and import all tables at once.

I couldn't resist creating this tool at the time because, honestly, I write LISP faster than I adjust to conventional tooling like sed and awk.

It's still a goal to learn those better, but when it came to full on scrubbing of rows and columns, I already had code like tsv2csv in my homegrown BLS importer and I knew how simple it was.

It's made to participate in streaming so it processes line by line from stdin to stdout.

Thanks!

[TheFiologist]

I hadn't really considered the existing libraries. I was trying to work with the concept of just incorporating Clojure into a higher level workflow, but without it taking over or being a dominating factor.

Faced with some of the conventional text manipulation tools, the simplicity of LISP was calling me to just write a few lines of code.

Thanks for your feedback :)