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why isn't this a trivial bash script more like it.

Indeed, but that's already been done.

Because the author prefers to code in something else?

Probably because it'd be awfully slow.

that's unlikely to be the case, JS is pretty fast

Yeah, but what if you had a few hundred MB CSV file?

it would probably still be fast enough, the difference between JS perf and native perf is surprisingly slim.