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Command line magic: csv file processing
Category: Computer Tricks • Linux • Technology • one-liners
Posted on: May 11, 2009 3:57 PM, by Greg Laden
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I did "sort -t, -k3 test1 | join -v 1 -v 2 -t, -j 3 test2 -" and got essentially the same result (well, fields 1 and 3 were swapped, but big deal, hey?).
Posted by: lylebot | May 11, 2009 7:14 PM
er, "test1" and "test2" in my line correspond to "stuff.csv" and "nostuff.csv" respectively.
Posted by: lylebot | May 11, 2009 7:16 PM
I have been using PHP to do all my CSV parsing all this time. I should have known there'd be commands that could do it as easily in a bash script. Thanks Greg (and Linux Journal), I learned something new and will probably apply it sometime today. If not for work, then for fun.
Posted by: Jason Thibeault | May 12, 2009 8:28 AM
Probably from memory.
After using unix/sunos/solaris/aix/hpux/linux for almost two decades, I've memorized most of the options to the commonly used commands. I'm sure the author of the video has too.
Posted by: Glen | May 12, 2009 2:25 PM