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> I rarely do it, but it’s nice to be able to Human read when I need to. Also being able to use all the command line text tools is super convenient.

Sometimes it helps a lot to eyeball what you have before doing one off scripts to filter/massage your data. Had a recent case where the path of least resistance was database to csv to one off python to statistic tools with a gui and tabular display.

Could have probably done some enterprise looking export infrastructure but it was a one off and not worth it.



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