Re: Support for CSV file format on sort

[✓ Paul Courbis de Bridiers de Villemor]

If you implement csv in sort you’ll have to implement it in head, tail,
uniq, joint, wc, etc. etc. etc... while a tool converting a csv to a plain
text file (and the reverse operation) will avoid the need to change all
tools !

Le sam. 30 janv. 2021 à 21:29, Eric Fischer <enf@pobox.com> a écrit :

> A couple of years ago I went down this route of thinking I would add CSV
> support to sort, and then let myself get distracted into trying to follow
> https://paulfitz.github.io/2017/01/24/the-year-of-poop-on-the-desktop.html
> instead. The problem with that is that coreutils doesn't work with
> multibyte field separators. That discovery led me to make the multibyte
> fixes in https://github.com/ericfischer/coreutils/tree/multibyte-squash so
> that my sorting and other transformations would work. They have been
> sitting in unreviewed limbo ever since, but they are still there if you
> want them.
>
> Eric
>
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