csvquote VS csvinfo

Compare csvquote vs csvinfo and see what are their differences.

csvquote

Enables common unix utlities like cut, awk, wc, head to work correctly with csv data containing delimiters and newlines (by dbro)

csvinfo

A small util to show max column lengths for a passed CSV file. (by sullivant)
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csvquote csvinfo
3 1
442 3
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1.9 0.0
10 months ago over 2 years ago
C Rust
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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csvquote

Posts with mentions or reviews of csvquote. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-30.
  • csvquote – smart and simple CSV processing on the command line
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jul 2023
  • Understanding Awk
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2021
    There is a small program I wrote called csvquote[1] that can be used to sanitize input to awk so it can rely on delimiter characters (commas) to always mean delimiters. The results from awk then get piped through the same program at the end to restore the commas inside the field values.

    Also works for other text processing tools like cut, sed, sort, etc.

    [1] https://github.com/dbro/csvquote

  • Awk: The Power and Promise of a 40-Year-Old Language
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2021
    CSVs with quoted fields and imbedded newlines can be troublesome in awk. Years ago I had found a script that worked for me, I'm not sure but I think it was this:

    http://lorance.freeshell.org/csv/

    There's also https://github.com/dbro/csvquote which is more unix-like in philosophy: it only handles transforming the CVS data into something that awk (or other utilities) can more easily deal with. I haven't used it but will probably try it next time I need something like that.

csvinfo

Posts with mentions or reviews of csvinfo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-30.
  • Understanding Awk
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2021
    A long while ago I wrote up a little processor to determine field lengths in a given file - I forgot the original reason. ( https://github.com/sullivant/csvinfo )

    However, I feel I really should have taken the time to learn Awk better as it could probably be done there, and simply! (It was a good excuse to tinker with rust, but that's an aside.)

What are some alternatives?

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Awk-Batteries - Public AWK Directory

csview - 📠 Pretty and fast csv viewer for cli with cjk/emoji support.

mkmcsv - Command-line utility for processing CSV files exported from Cardmarket.

Unix-Pledge - Perl support for pledge(2) syscall