Re: Different delimiter for 'collapse'

[Shawn Wagner]

I actually have a patch to do this ready to commit when I find the time and remember to work on it... but I never was happy with the long-form name for the option I used (--collapse-delimiter). Any better suggestions?

On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 11:11 AM Eric Powell <powell.eric@gmail.com> wrote:

Datamash is such a wonderful piece of software and I am so happy to have discovered it.

One feature that I wish was available is to change the delimiter for the collapse operation.  My data has commas in it already so I cannot distinguish between those and the commas produced by collapse.  It would be great if there was a command-line flag allowing the user to choose the delimiter used by collapse.