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So, it's like App::RecordStream, except very, very limited in what it can do?

Yeah, very limited in what it can do. There are a bunch of tools similar to it which have a lot more features built in, but what I really wanted was something I could use easily with traditional UNIX tools like sed/awk/sort/uniq/etc which tend to be difficult to use with JSON (in my case JSON log lines).

So again, it's like App::RecordStream, except for it can't do much.

It doesn't appear that App::RecordStream knows how to deal with a stream of JSON objects. You can split on a delimiter (newline), but you'll have to either write some regular expression or some perl code in order to transform each line of JSON into something else.

> It doesn't appear that App::RecordStream knows how to deal with a stream of JSON objects.

No? You mean you missed recs-grep, recs-xform, recs-join, recs-sort and recs-collate?

> you'll have to either write some regular expression or some perl code in order to transform each line of JSON into something else.

Something like what? Like sequence of INSERT to SQLite? Like tabular display of selected fields? Like CSV? Or like gnuplot chart?

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