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Old 01-10-2011
pulling different fields from a csv file
Hi,

I have a requirment where I need to pull different columns from a .csv file.

Here is the sample of the csv file.

account,item,flag1,flag2,flag3,flag4,flag5,......feed,tran

I will be have a config.txt file which will have the following information.

item,flag5,flag10,feed,tran
account,flag1,flag4,flag15,tran
Using the config file I need to pull all the data in that columns provided into to two separte files.

Please let me know if you need more information.
# 2  
Old 01-11-2011
Try:
Code:
i=0;while read line; do i=$((i+1));echo $line | awk -F, 'NR==1{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++){a[$i]}}NR==2{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++){if ($i in a){b[i]}}}
NR>2{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++){if (i in b){printf $i","}}printf "\n"}' - file.csv | perl -pe 's/,$//' > file$i; done<config.txt

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Old 01-11-2011
Thank you very much.
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