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Re: [Help-bash] read that understands quoting
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] read that understands quoting |
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Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:30:19 -0400 |
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On 3/12/12 8:23 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> If your real goal is parsing Microsoft-ish "CSV" files, rather than
> Apache log files, then you're going to end up using the third one,
> because xargs can't handle embedded escaped quotes.
If your real goal is parsing csv files with embedded quotes, use the
code from Kernighan and Pike's "The Practice of Programming." It's
small and clean and can be adapted to many purposes.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/index.html
Chet
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