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Commands tagged CSV

Terminal - Commands tagged CSV - 10 results

# su -c "psql -d maillog -c \"copy (select date,sender,destination,subject from maillog where destination like '%domain.com%') to '/tmp/mails.csv' with csv;\" " postgres

2013-02-13 13:03:17

User: Risthel

Functions: su

Tags: CSV PostGres sql su postgresql

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Export a postgresql query into csv file

This command will "su" the execution of the command to the postgres user(implies that you are already logger as root), and export the result of the query to a file on the csv format.

You'll need to adequate the fields and database information to one of your choice/need.

for i in `ls *.anki`; do sqlite3 $i "select (cards.question || '||' || cards.answer) from cards, facts where cards.factid=facts.id and facts.tags like '%mytag%';" >> mytag.csv; done

2012-03-13 19:03:20

User: joshuaeckroth

Tags: CSV anki

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Get tagged flashcards from Anki databases

Produces a CSV file containing fronts/backs of cards with specified tag ("mytag" above). This command pulls these cards from different card databases, and allows them to be merged into one (by importing the resulting CSV file).

The CSV file is not directly produced; instead of commas, "||" are inserted. In your editor of choice, modify the resulting file to put quotes around the text before || and after ||, then change || to a comma (for every line).

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sed 's/$/uniqueString/' file.old | sed 's/,/\n/g' | sed ':loop;/^\"[^\"]*$/N;s/\n/,/;/[^\"]$/t loop' | sed ':loop;N;s/\n/@/g;/uniqueString$/!b loop;s/uniqueString$//' > file.new

2012-01-06 10:06:40

User: moogmusic

Functions: sed

Tags: sed CSV delimiter

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Rebuild a Delimited File with a Unique Delimiter

Useful for CSV files. In the command, the file in question is comma delimited but contains double quoted fields containing commas and contains no @ symbols (as confirmed with http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/9998/delimiter-hunting). This command converts the delimiting commas to @s while preserving the commas in the fields using the "uniqueString" to mark the ends of lines.

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csvde -f test.csv

2011-03-07 11:01:56

User: ohe

Tags: CSV active directory

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Output the content of your Active Directory in a CSV file

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sqlite3 -line database.db

2010-10-09 16:10:19

User: pykler

Tags: CSV html sql sqlite

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Display sqlite results one column per line

Similar output to using MySQL with the \G at the end of a Query. Displays one column per line. Other modes include:

-column

Query results will be displayed in a table like form, using whitespace characters to separate the columns and align the output.

-html Query results will be output as simple HTML tables.

-line Query results will be displayed with one value per line, rows separated by a blank line. Designed to be easily parsed by scripts or other programs

-list Query results will be displayed with the separator (|, by default) character between each field value. The default.

From inside the command line this can be also changed using the mode command:

.mode MODE ?TABLE? Set output mode where MODE is one of:

csv Comma-separated values

column Left-aligned columns. (See .width)

html HTML code

insert SQL insert statements for TABLE

line One value per line

list Values delimited by .separator string

tabs Tab-separated values

tcl TCL list elements

python -c 'import sys,csv; c = csv.reader(sys.stdin); [sys.stdout.write("^M".join(map(repr,r))+"\n") for r in c];' <tmp/test.csv | column -s '^M' -t

2010-02-01 14:57:25

User: pykler

Functions: c++ column python

Tags: CSV

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Pretty Print a simple csv in the command line

Will handle pretty much all types of CSV Files.

The ^M character is typed on the command line using Ctrl-V Ctrl-M and can be replaced with any character that does not appear inside the CSV.

Tips for simpler CSV files:

* If newlines are not placed within a csv cell then you can replace `map(repr, r)` with r

perl -F',' -ane '$a += $F[3]; END { print $a }' test.csv

2009-08-11 15:08:58

User: coffeeaddict_nl

Functions: perl

Tags: awk column CSV sum

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Sum columns from CSV column $COL

More of the same but with more elaborate perl-fu :-)

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awk -F ',' '{ x = x + $4 } END { print x }' test.csv

2009-08-11 12:10:33

User: coffeeaddict_nl

Functions: awk

Tags: awk column CSV sum

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Sum columns from CSV column $COL

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perl -ne 'split /,/ ; $a+= $_[3]; END {print $a."\n";}' -f ./file.csv

2009-08-07 09:35:52

User: ioggstream

Functions: perl

Tags: column CSV sum

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Sum columns from CSV column $COL

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function headers { head -1 $* | tr ',' '\12' | pr -t -n ; }

2009-03-25 20:07:47

User: totoro

Functions: head pr tr

Tags: CSV headers

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Show the ordered header line (with field names) of a CSV file

This little command (function) shows the CSV header fields (which are field names separated by commas) as an ordered list, clearly showing the fields and their order.