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Beacon processing tools

This directory contains some command line tools to process Beacon files. Most of the tools are designed form Beacon text format only.

Extracting meta lines and link lines

  • beacon-link-lines removes the meta fields of a Beacon text file
  • beacon-meta-lines only prints the meta fields of a Beacon text file

Sorting link lines

beacon-sort sorts the link lines of a Beacon text file. One can specify the link token with parameter -vk=1 (source token), -vk=2 (annotation token) or -vk=3 (target token). Some usage examples:

awk -f beacon-sort example.beacon
awk -f beacon-sort -vk=3 example.beacon
beacon-sort < example.beacon
cat example.beacon | beacon-sort -vk=2

Joining links

Simple joins on Beacon text files can be executed if the TARGET of file A equals to the PREFIX of file B. The script beacon-join.sh tries to do so, but it may not catch every edge case yet.

Transforming from and to RDF

The scripts beacon2nt.awk and nt2beacon.awk may not reflect the current state of the Beacon specification.