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Old 01-24-2019
Is there a way to handle commas inside the data when generating a csv file from shell script?

I am extracting data via sql query and some of the data has commas. Output File must be csv and I cannot update the data in the db (as it is used by other application).

Example

table FavoriteThings
Code:
Person VARCHAR2(25),
Favorite VARCHAR2(100)

Sample Data
Code:
Greta        rain drop on roses
Liesl          whiskers on kitten
Kurt            chocolate,chocolate cookies

excerpt from code
Code:
sqlplus -s myuser/mypassword@mydb <<EOF

set feedback off
set linesize 999
whenever sqlerror exit failure;
set trimspool on
set lines 2000
set pages 0
set colsep ","
set serveroutput off


SPOOL favorites.csv
select Person, Favorite from FavoriteThings 
SPOOL_OFF
EXIT
EOF

Output needs to be
Code:
"Greta", "rain drop on roses"
"Liesl" ,"whiskers on kitten"
"Kurt "," chocolate,chocolate cookies"

currently I get
Code:
Greta, rain drop on roses
Liesl ,whiskers on kitten
Kurt , chocolate,chocolate cookies

which when imported into excel shows 4 columns for Kurt

Last edited by vbe; 01-24-2019 at 02:39 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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NAME
intltool-update - update .po file with marked translatable strings from the application source code SYNOPSIS
intltool-update [--headers] [--help] [--maintain] [--pot] [--report] [--verbose] [--version] language-code DESCRIPTION
The intltool-update, intltoolize, intltool-extract, and intltool-unicodify utilities identify localizable content in application source code, and extract this content into translatable .po message catalog files. intltool-update updates the message catalog files with the translatable content from the application source code. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --headers Generate the header files in the POTFILES.in file. You can also use -s to specify this option. --help Show usage and basic help information. --maintain Search for files that have been omitted from the POTFILES.in file. You can also use -m to specify this option. --pot Generate the PO template only. You can also use -p to specify this option. --report Display a status report for the module. You can also use -r to specify this option. --verbose Provide additional feedback. You can also use -x to specify this option. --version Show version information. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: language-code Specifies the language code of the file that you wish to update with new translatable content. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Updating a Message Catalog .pot File With All Marked Translatable Content example% intltool-update --pot Example 2: Updating a Message Catalog .po File for the French Language Based on the Current Contents of the .pot File example% intltool-update fr EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/intltool-updateThe command-line executable for the application. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-common-devel | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
intltool-extract(1), intltool-merge(1), intltool-prepare(1), intltool-unicodify(1), intltoolize(1) NOTES
For more information, see the I18N-HOWTO file, which is provided with the intltool source code. Updated by Damien Donlon, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003. Written by Darin Adler, Kenneth Christiansen, Maciej Stachowiak. SunOS 5.10 3 Apr 2003 intltool-update(1)
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