Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018)

Re:Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2... by kd5bjo on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:18AM (#22306642)

Awk splits lines into numbered fields, so it’s really convenient for things like extracting and reordering columns from a csv file. For example, getting the second field of every line is:

  awk -F, '{ print $2 }'

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Re:Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2... by markus_zhang on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @01:44PM (#22311461)

I recently tried csvsql and it seemes to be a stronger tool to process csv files?

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