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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Output to csv contains quotes Post 302835625 by strykergli250hp on Monday 22nd of July 2013 07:30:46 PM
Old 07-22-2013
I suppose the best reason I am using uuencode is I need an actual csv file and not just text output....and most likely am missing something very simple in my mail or mailx command that will send me a file not just text. Why did I do this? Simply because the output, no matter what I tried would not paste back into the spreadsheet "correctly, column and row specific, until after I remove the quotes. I saw a very similar issue 7 years ago on a unix2dos type conversion that remained hidden until I did the same thing.

RudiC - the very odd thing here is the only place the quotes show up is when I pull the data from the csv file and put it into notepad++. Even Notepad, wordpad and vi/vim do not show the characters. It just looks like regular ol' ascii txt.

So the output from all of them looks identical. The forum editor doesnt do it justice on formatting.

Quote:
SPACE OF IMPORTANT FILE SYSTEMS
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FILE-SYSTEM TOTAL-SPACE USED-SPACE FREE-SPACE %USED

/usr 5.00 3.37 1.63 68%
/var 3.00 2.35 0.65 79%
/tmp 3.75 0.05 3.70 2%
/home 2.00 1.30 0.70 65%
/admin 0.06 0.00 0.06 1%
/proc - - - -
/opt 3.00 1.52 1.48 51%
/var/adm/ras/livedump 0.25 0.01 0.24 4%
/usr/local 1.00 0.01 0.99 1%
/opt/Tivoli 3.00 1.50 1.50 50%
/root 1.00 0.01 0.99 2%
/mksysb_dir 20.00 8.83 11.17 45%
/opt/esm 2.00 0.48 1.52 25%
/opt/openv 4.00 1.56 2.44 40%
/db 100.00 66.75 33.25 67%
/ai 5.00 0.02 4.98 1%
/bi 30.00 1.12 28.88 4%
However the text pulled from the csv looks like this, still no quotes are visable

Quote:
SPACE OF IMPORTANT FILE SYSTEMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FILE-SYSTEM TOTAL-SPACE USED-SPACE FREE-SPACE %USED/ai 5.00 0.02 4.98 1% /batchrpt 1.00 0.02 0.98 2% /bi 30.00 1.12 28.88 4% / 2.00 0.54 1.46 28% /db 100.00 66.75 33.25 67% /db_bkup 120.00 67.52 52.48 57% /dbashell 5.00 0.06 4.94 2% /dbtmp 10.50 3.65 6.85 35% /DUshare 2.00 0.01 1.99 1% /home 2.00 1.30 0.70 65%
Ultimately, this is where the quotes show up.
Quote:
" SPACE OF IMPORTANT FILE SYSTEMS "
------------------------------------------------------------------------
" FILE-SYSTEM TOTAL-SPACE USED-SPACE FREE-SPACE %USED"
"/ai 5.00 0.02 4.98 1% "
"/batchrpt 1.00 0.02 0.98 2% "
"/bi 30.00 1.12 28.88 4% "
"/ 2.00 0.54 1.46 28% "
"/db 100.00 66.75 33.25 67% "
"/db_bkup 120.00 67.52 52.48 57% "
"/dbashell 5.00 0.06 4.94 2% "
"/dbtmp 10.50 3.65 6.85 35% "
"/DUshare 2.00 0.01 1.99 1% "
"/home 2.00 1.30 0.70 65% "
Output to csv contains quotes-7-22-2013-7-26-52-pmjpg
email (4).xls (17.0 KB) 
 

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