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bug#6277: cut
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#6277: cut |
Date: |
Thu, 27 May 2010 16:08:35 +0100 |
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On 27/05/10 04:00, sandy bas wrote:
> Dear People:
>
> Comma delimited files often have fields of the form "big,black,bear" where the
> commas within the quotes are not delimiters. A useful option in cut would
> be to ignore the commas (delimiters) within the quotation marks.
>
> I would be glad to put it in if you would like the option.
Hmm, the CSV format is a bit more complicated than that
so as to support " and \n within fields also.
It would be more general I think to have a separate tool
to parse CSV to a format more easily usable on the shell,
and that it turn could be passed to cut -d, column -s, ...
Aha, the csvutils command from here seems to do this:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/csvutils
cheers,
Pádraig.