How To Install miller on Fedora 34

miller is Name-indexed data processing tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install miller on Fedora 34.

What is `miller`

Miller (mlr) allows name-indexed data such as CSV and JSON files to be processed with functions equivalent to sed, awk, cut, join, sort etc. It can convert between formats, preserves headers when sorting or reversing, and streams data where possible so its memory requirements stay small. It works well with pipes and can feed “tail -f”.

We can use yum or dnf to install miller on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install miller.

Install miller on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install miller using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install miller

Install miller on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install miller using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install miller

How To Uninstall miller on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the miller package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove miller

miller Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/mlr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/0b44defb3348601433947907a3ac04129508a3
/usr/share/doc/miller
/usr/share/doc/miller/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/miller
/usr/share/licenses/miller/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/mlr.1.gz

References

miller website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install miller on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.