Pata is an utility to helps for automation and data processing tasks.

Mainly with

• POSIX shell (bash when POSIX is too poor)
• grep,sed,find,cut,...

But also with some thirdparty utils:

• jq (for all json stuff)
• tidy (for html to xml)
• xml2json.py (for xml to json)
• csv2json.py (for csv to json)

Some experimental stuff use:

• sqlite3 (for SQL)
• xls, xlsx ods support (to read from spreadsheet files)
• curl,wget (for download and REST API)
• ping (for network stuff)

• csv/json_array
• csv/json_object
• json_array/csv
• json_object/csv ( json_object/json_array + json_array/csv )
• json_object/json_array
• json_object/rgrep ( json/rgrepn + rgrepn/rgrep )
• json_object/rgrepn
• xml/json
• html/json
• html/xml
• rgrepn/json_object
• rgrepn/rgrep
• rgrep/json_object ( rgrep/rgrepn + rgrepn/json_object )
• rgrep/rgrepn
• yaml/json

TODO:

• xls/json
• xlsx/json
• ods/json
• mbox <-> json
• maildir/maildir+ <-> json
• http header <-> json
• curl (header and body) <-> json
• json/yaml

(*: via convertion) (**: via tidy )

jsonA means json array like :

[
	["head1", "head2", "head3"],
	["x=1 y=1", "x=2 y=1", "x=3 y=1",
	["x=1 y=2", "x=2 y=2", "x=3 y=2"
]

jsonO means json Object like :

[
	{"head1": "x=1 y=1", "head2": "x=2 y=1", "head3": "x=3 y=1"},
	{"head1": "x=1 y=2", "head2": "x=2 y=2", "head3": "x=3 y=2"}
]

• csv2json.py
• (lua ?)

• jq
• (py ? lua ?)

• jq
• (py ? lua ?)

Alias: json to rgrepn, rgrepn to rgrep

• xml2json.py

Alias: html to xml, xml to json

• tidy -asxml

Rewrite "bad" html to strict html.

• tidy -ashtml

• jq
• (py ? lua ?)

• sh
• (py ? lua ?)

Alias: rgrep to rgrepn, rgrepn to json