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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting double quote as the delimiter Post 302551749 by ivpz on Wednesday 31st of August 2011 01:06:58 PM
Old 08-31-2011
double quote as the delimiter

I'm trying to extract a column from a csv file with either cut or awk but some of the fields contain comma with them:

Code:
"Field1","Field2, additional info","Field3",...,"Field17",...

If I want to extract column 3 and use comma as the delimiter, I'll actually get the additional info bit but not Field3:

Code:
cut -f3 d, file

Is there any way to specify the double quote as the delimiter instead of comma?

Thank you.

Last edited by radoulov; 08-31-2011 at 06:07 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
 

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NAME
bb-csvinfo.cgi - CGI program to show host information from a CSV file SYNOPSIS
bb-csvinfo.cgi DESCRIPTION
bb-csvinfo.cgi is invoked as a CGI script via the bb-csvinfo.sh CGI wrapper. Based on the parameters it receives, it searches a comma- separated file for the matching host, and presents the information found as a table. bb-csvinfo.cgi is passed a QUERY_STRING environment variable with the following parameters: key (string to search for, typically hostname) column (columnnumber to search - default 0) db (name of the CSV database file in $BBHOME/etc/, default hostinfo.csv) delimiter (delimiter character for columns, default semi-colon) CSV files are easily created from e.g. spreadsheets, by exporting them in CSV format. You should have one host per line, with the first line containing the column headings. Despite their name, the default delimiter for CSV files is the semi-colon - if you need a different delimiter, invoke bb-csvinfo.cgi with the "delimiter=<character>" in the query string. Example usage This example shows how you can use the bb-csvinfo CGI. It assumes you have a CSV-formatted file with information about the hosts stored as $BBHOME/etc/hostinfo.csv, and the hostname is in the first column of the file. Use with the bbgen --docurl The --docurl option to bbgen(1) sets up all of the hostnames on your Xymon webpages to act as links to a CGI script. To invoke the bb-csvinfo CGI script, run bbgen with the option --docurl=/cgi-bin/bb-csvinfo.sh?db=hostinfo.csv&key=%s SEE ALSO
bb-hosts(5), hobbitserver.cfg(5), bbgen(1) Xymon Version 4.2.3: 4 Feb 2009 BB-CSVINFO.CGI(1)
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