Re: Support for CSV file format on sort

[✓ Paul Courbis de Bridiers de Villemor]

Hi

Actually I’d prefer to have reliable tools to convert csv to tsv and tsv to
csv, replacing tabs and newlines by \t \n and to be able to use all
standard tools

Regards


Le sam. 30 janv. 2021 à 17:58, yon ar c'hall <yon.ar.chall@gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Hello,
>
> I'm planning to make some changes to the sort utility for supporting the
> CSV file format, in particular about quoting, as described in RFC 4180.
>
> Is the CSV format something that the coreutils team is wishing to avoid ?
>
> If you are willing to accept CSV support, what would be your advice as a
> starting point : making a different tool (such as sort-csv), or making
> changes to the existing sort code, in particular about key fields, which
> then should be able to accept named keys (CSV header fields) ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Yon ar C'hall
>
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