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by wladimir 5543 days ago
Does line-based processing still hold up? I tend to use it less and less these days, in favor of tools that process records instead of lines. There's only so much you can meaningfully store in a line of text, there is no standardized parsing, and it has all kinds of escaping issues if you have fields with embedded newlines / separators.

(FYI even syslog is moving from strictly line based to a more structured format, RFC5424/5425)