Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV support

Re:Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV su... by altairprime on Thursday May 12, 2022 @11:56AM (#31355971)

For non-awk tools, csvformat (from csvkit) will unquote and re-delimeter a CSV file (-D\034 -U -B) into something that UNIX pipes can handle (cut -d\034, etc). It’s worth setting up as an alias, and you can store \034 in $D or whatever for convenience.

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