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Old 05-06-2014
How to extract UNIX output to excel CSV file?

Hi guys - I have a file and output like this below:

Code:
File: myfile.dat
File has content like this: ABCD, 34, 456, 2324
 
I would like excel to have this:
 
Name (ABCD) Quantity (34), Type (456), Status (2324)
 
(Name, Quantity, Type and Status are columns)

I would like to export this file to excel. What command to use to email myself as CSV format?

Thanks!

Last edited by DallasT; 05-06-2014 at 02:04 PM..
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Old 05-06-2014
What do you want the output to look like?
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Old 05-06-2014
Like this (if possible), thanks.

Code:
Name Quantity Type Status
ABCD 34          456  2324
XYX  24          21X T

# 4  
Old 05-06-2014
Your file practically is that already. Add carriage returns, load it into excel as CSV, and see what you get.

Code:
( printf "Name,Quantity,Type,Status\r\n" ; sed 's/$/\r/g' ) < input > output.csv

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Old 05-06-2014
With some assumption that your file might look like this...
Code:
$ cat file
Name (ABCD) Quantity (34), Type (456), Status (2324)

Code:
$ cat tester
awk  'FNR==1{
		gsub(/,/,OFS,head)
		print head
		gsub(OFS,"|",head);
		head = head "|,|[()]"
	    }
	    {
		gsub(head,x)
		$1 = $1
	    }1' head="Name,Quantity,Type,Status" OFS="\t" file

Code:
$ ./tester
Name	Quantity  Type	Status
ABCD	34	   456	 2324

For csv replace OFS="\t" with OFS=","
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