Re: csv with multiline records

[Ole Tange]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:04 AM, Ryan Brothers <ryan.brothers@gmail.com> wrote:
:
> Is there a way to use --pipe to process a csv that could have multiple
> lines for a single record?  For example:
>
> row1,"1
> 2
> 3"
> row2,4
>
> I'd like to treat the above as 2 rows for parsing purposes.

This would require GNU Parallel to parse the input as CSV. It does not.

But if you can somehow replace the record separator, then you can use --recend.

Given your input this might work:

    parallel --pipe --recend '"\n"

assuming a good part of the records have a last column with newlines.


/Ole