bash convert to csv

Jason M Potter answered on April 13, 2021 Popularity 7/10 Helpfulness 6/10

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Create Reusable Aliases

alias tocsv="sed -z 's/\n/,/g;s/,$/\n/' "

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alias tocsv="sed -z 's/\n/,/g;s/,$/\n/' "

Usage Example 1 --- Calling File Directly

~ $ tocsv /tmp/mytest
Browser Cache Support,CSS/JavaScript Combination,CSS/JavaScript/HTML Minification,Content Delivery Network Support,Crawler,Database Optimization,Edge Side Includes (ESI),HTTP/2 Push,Image Optimization,Lazy Load Images,Private Cache,Server-Level Full-Page Cache

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~ $ tocsv /tmp/mytest

Browser Cache Support,CSS/JavaScript Combination,CSS/JavaScript/HTML Minification,Content Delivery Network Support,Crawler,Database Optimization,Edge Side Includes (ESI),HTTP/2 Push,Image Optimization,Lazy Load Images,Private Cache,Server-Level Full-Page Cache

Usage Example 2 -- Using Pipe

~ $ cat /tmp/mytest | tocsv
Browser Cache Support,CSS/JavaScript Combination,CSS/JavaScript/HTML Minification,Content Delivery Network Support,Crawler,Database Optimization,Edge Side Includes (ESI),HTTP/2 Push,Image Optimization,Lazy Load Images,Private Cache,Server-Level Full-Page Cache

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~ $ cat /tmp/mytest | tocsv

Browser Cache Support,CSS/JavaScript Combination,CSS/JavaScript/HTML Minification,Content Delivery Network Support,Crawler,Database Optimization,Edge Side Includes (ESI),HTTP/2 Push,Image Optimization,Lazy Load Images,Private Cache,Server-Level Full-Page Cache

Bonus --- TAB Delimited

alias totsv="sed -z 's/\n/\t/g;s/\t$/\n/' "

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alias totsv="sed -z 's/\n/\t/g;s/\t$/\n/' "

Example

~ $ totsv /tmp/mytest
Browser Cache Support   CSS/JavaScript Combination      CSS/JavaScript/HTML Minification        Content Delivery Network Support        Crawler Database Optimization      Edge Side Includes (ESI)        HTTP/2 Push     Image Optimization      Lazy Load Images        Private Cache   Server-Level Full-Page Cache

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~ $ totsv /tmp/mytest

Browser Cache Support   CSS/JavaScript Combination      CSS/JavaScript/HTML Minification        Content Delivery Network Support        Crawler Database Optimization      Edge Side Includes (ESI)        HTTP/2 Push     Image Optimization      Lazy Load Images        Private Cache   Server-Level Full-Page Cache

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# On OSX you cannot use \t for tab.  
# Instead cntrl+v then insert a literal tab after s/
sed 's/ /,/g' input_file > output_file

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# On OSX you cannot use \t for tab.

# Instead cntrl+v then insert a literal tab after s/

sed 's/ /,/g' input_file > output_file

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