Bob Proulx wrote:
> sandy bas wrote:
>> Comma delimited files often have fields of the form "big,black,bear"
>> where the commas within the quotes are not delimiters. A useful
>> option in cut would be to ignore the commas (delimiters) within the
>> quotation marks.
>>
>> I would be glad to put it in if you would like the option.
> I suggest that you use Perl, Python or Ruby for CSV processing. They
> include full libraries for dealing with the many varied details of CSV
> handling.
just to mention another classic UNIX tool: awk
awk -F, '$1 ~ /^big$/ { print $2,$3 }' csv.txt
Have a nice day,
Berny
