csvcat

Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: Library Commands (3)
Updated: 20 March 2025
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NAME

csvcat - clean, join and cat csv file or stream

 

SYNOPSIS

edrc/lib/csvcat [ -h ]

csvcat file...

cat file... | csvcat

 

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/edrc

 

DESCRIPTION

prepare and print a CSV file or stream for further processing.

Comment lines that begin with a hash ( # ) and empty lines are eliminated.

If the first line is sep=... (as seen in some programatically produced CSV files) this line is removed.

Lines that are distributed over multiple lines thru a backslash ( \ ) at the end of the line are joined.

White spaces before and after the field separator ( ; ) are eliminated.

 

OPTIONS

-h
usage message.

file...
file(s) to be printed.

 

ENVIRONMENT

-

 

EXIT STATUS

0
no error.

x
error codes of sed(1).

 

FILES

-

 

EXAMPLES

-

 

SEE ALSO

edrcintro(1), csv(3), print_list(3), sectioncat(3), sed(3), select_columns(3)

 

NOTES

-

 

BUGS

-

 

AUTHOR

csvcat was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net . 

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 Christian Walther

This is free software; see edrc/doc/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
EXIT STATUS
FILES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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