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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting csv file to excel issue Post 302481980 by girish1428 on Monday 20th of December 2010 10:19:49 AM
Old 12-20-2010
csv file to excel issue
Hi,

I am trying to attach and email a csv file in the form of an excel sheet.
And I have been successful in doing this.

But after some days I realised that some fields in the csv file are also having commas because of which this field is getting splitted in columns in the excel sheet.

Is there a way by which I can change the field separator from comma to something else, say a pipe or something?

I use the following command to send the email:

mailx -r from_email@abc.com -s "Subject" to_email@abc.com < <filename.txt>

Could some one assist me on this one please?

Regards,
Girish.
 

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