NAME

csvrows

SYNOPSIS

csvrows OPTIONS [ARGS_AS_ROW_VALUES]

DESCRIPTION

csvrows converts a set of command line args into rows of CSV formated output. It can also be used to filter or list specific rows of CSV input The first row is 1 not 0. Often row 1 is the header row and csvrows makes it easy to output only the data rows.

OPTIONS

-help

display help

-license

display license

-version

display version

-d, -delimiter

set delimiter character

-header

display the header row (alias for ‘-rows 1’)

-i, -input

input filename

-o, -output

output filename

-quiet

suppress error messages

-random

return N randomly selected rows

-row, -rows

output specified rows in order (e.g. -row 1,5,2-4))

-skip-header-row

skip the header row (alias for -row 2-

-trim-leading-space

trim leading space in field(s) for CSV input

-use-lazy-quotes

use lazy quotes for CSV input

EXAMPLES

Simple usage of building a CSV file one rows at a time.

    csvrows "First,Second,Third" "one,two,three" > 4rows.csv
    csvrows "ein,zwei,drei" "1,2,3" >> 4rows.csv
    cat 4row.csv

Example parsing a pipe delimited string into a CSV line

    csvrows -d "|" "First,Second,Third|one,two,three" > 4rows.csv
    csvrows -delimiter "|" "ein,zwei,drei|1,2,3" >> 4rows.csv
    cat 4rows.csv

Filter a 10 row CSV file for rows 1,4,6 (top most row is one)

    cat 10row.csv | csvrows -row 1,4,6 > 3rows.csv

Filter a 10 row CSV file for rows 1,4,6 from file named “10row.csv”

    csvrows -i 10row.csv -row 1,4,6 > 3rows.csv

Filter 3 randomly selected rows from 10row.csv rendering new CSV with a header row from 10row.csv.

    csvrows -i 10row.csv -header=true -random=3

csvrows 1.2.10