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Added a mission statement (goal) to the README
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samuel committed Feb 7, 2010
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Expand Up @@ -6,6 +6,18 @@ Squawk is a library and command line tool for running SQL queries
against structured/semi-structured static files.
(e.g. Apache logs, csv files, tcpdump output).

Goal
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The purpose is Squawk is to make querying for data in log files or other
structured files easier. Everything that Squawk does can be done by
combining various unix tools, but Squawk makes it ever easier to express
more complex relationships. It is in no way a database or meant to be
used as such. It's merely a reporting tool.

Squawk can be used from the command line for ad-hoc queries, but it can
also be used as a library as a part of a more in-depth reporting tool.

Status
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