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grep, awk, sed, cut, sort, uniq and join are the Swiss Army knife of working with tabulated data on the command line.



No, they are the opposites of an all-in-one tool.

For a Swiss Army Knife, look at the likes of Miller.

* https://johnkerl.org/miller/


And yet they are absolutely useless if columns get swapped silently.


Everything breaks down if columns are swapped silently (or database records are renamed silently). What do you mean?


Not with Powershell.


You forgot paste.




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