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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support How to convert the following characters in some fields in a csv file? Post 302926742 by RudiC on Wednesday 26th of November 2014 02:11:24 PM
Old 11-26-2014
What stops you from adding the respective substitute commands
Code:
sed 's/"="/="/g;s/""~/"/g' file

to your above sed script?
And, a sample input file would be nice...
 

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SYNOPSIS

       csv2rec [OPTIONS]... [CSV_FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       Convert csv data into rec data.

       -t, --type=TYPE
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