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NAME¶
csvgrep - csvgrep Documentation
DESCRIPTION¶
Filter tabular data to only those rows where certain columns contain a given value or match a regular expression:
usage: csvgrep [-h] [-d DELIMITER] [-t] [-q QUOTECHAR] [-u {0,1,2,3}] [-b]
[-p ESCAPECHAR] [-z FIELD_SIZE_LIMIT] [-e ENCODING] [-S] [-H]
[-K SKIP_LINES] [-v] [-l] [--zero] [-V] [-n] [-c COLUMNS]
[-m PATTERN] [-r REGEX] [-f MATCHFILE] [-i] [-a]
[FILE]
Search CSV files. Like the Unix "grep" command, but for tabular data.
positional arguments:
FILE The CSV file to operate on. If omitted, will accept
input as piped data via STDIN.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-n, --names Display column names and indices from the input CSV
and exit.
-c COLUMNS, --columns COLUMNS
A comma-separated list of column indices, names or
ranges to be searched, e.g. "1,id,3-5".
-m PATTERN, --match PATTERN
A string to search for.
-r REGEX, --regex REGEX
A regular expression to match.
-f MATCHFILE, --file MATCHFILE
A path to a file. For each row, if any line in the
file (stripped of line separators) is an exact match
of the cell value, the row matches.
-i, --invert-match Select non-matching rows, instead of matching rows.
-a --any-match Select rows in which any column matches, instead of
all columns.
See also: Arguments common to all tools.
NOTE: Even though '-m', '-r', and '-f' are listed as "optional" arguments, you must specify one of them.
EXAMPLES¶
Search for the row relating to Illinois:
csvgrep -c 1 -m ILLINOIS examples/realdata/FY09_EDU_Recipients_by_State.csv
Search for rows relating to states with names beginning with the letter "I":
csvgrep -c 1 -r "^I" examples/realdata/FY09_EDU_Recipients_by_State.csv
Search for rows that do not contain an empty state cell:
csvgrep -c 1 -r "^$" -i examples/realdata/FY09_EDU_Recipients_by_State.csv
Perform a case-insensitive search:
csvgrep -c 1 -r "(?i)illinois" examples/realdata/FY09_EDU_Recipients_by_State.csv
Remove comment rows:
printf "a,b\n1,2\n# a comment\n3,4" | csvgrep --invert-match -c1 -r '^#'
Get the indices of the columns that contain matching text (\x1e is the Record Separator (RS) character):
csvgrep -m 22 -a -c 1- examples/realdata/FY09_EDU_Recipients_by_State.csv | csvformat -M $'\x1e' | xargs -d $'\x1e' -n1 sh -c 'echo $0 | csvcut -n' | grep 22
NOTE:
This last example is not performant.
AUTHOR¶
Christopher Groskopf and contributors
COPYRIGHT¶
2016, Christopher Groskopf and James McKinney
| July 13, 2024 | 2.0.1 |