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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting loops Post 302485369 by yash1978 on Wednesday 5th of January 2011 04:32:23 AM
Old 01-05-2011
loops

Hi All

I have some directories on our server which are containing .csv files. i need to print value of cell "B2" from those csv files. Please advise.

I have tried head command as example: head -2 */Book_Collection_Report_1_-_Collection_Requests_trials.csv | sed -n "3p" | awk -F"," '{print$1}'
but it given me output of first file's value..

thanks in advance
Yash Smilie
 

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Convert rec data into csv data. -t, --type=TYPE record set to convert to csv; if this parameter is omitted then the default record set is used -S, --sort=FIELD sort the output by the specified field. --help print a help message and exit. --version show version and exit. AUTHOR
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