csvsort

Type:command
Package:prepDATA/1.1 — Conversion, Transformation and Plotting of Basic Data Files
Namespace:&type1

Description

Sort CSV files.

Usage

csvsort {options}
Bash equivalent: csvsort -d CSEP {options}
usage: csvsort [-h] [-d DELIMITER] [-t] [-q QUOTECHAR] [-u {0,1,2,3}] [-b]
[-p ESCAPECHAR] [-z FIELD_SIZE_LIMIT] [-e ENCODING] [-L LOCALE]
[-S] [–blanks] [–date-format DATE_FORMAT]
[–datetime-format DATETIME_FORMAT] [-H] [-K SKIP_LINES] [-v]
[-l] [–zero] [-V] [-n] [-c COLUMNS] [-r] [-y SNIFF_LIMIT] [-I]
[FILE]
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Sort CSV files. Like the Unix “sort” command, but for tabular data.
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positional arguments:
FILE The CSV file to operate on. If omitted, will accept
input on STDIN.
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optional arguments:
-h, –help show this help message and exit
-d DELIMITER, –delimiter DELIMITER
Delimiting character of the input CSV file.
-t, –tabs Specify that the input CSV file is delimited with
tabs. Overrides “-d”.
-q QUOTECHAR, –quotechar QUOTECHAR
Character used to quote strings in the input CSV file.
-u {0,1,2,3}, –quoting {0,1,2,3}
Quoting style used in the input CSV file. 0 = Quote
Minimal, 1 = Quote All, 2 = Quote Non-numeric, 3 =
Quote None.
-b, –no-doublequote Whether or not double quotes are doubled in the input
CSV file.
-p ESCAPECHAR, –escapechar ESCAPECHAR
Character used to escape the delimiter if –quoting 3
(“Quote None”) is specified and to escape the
QUOTECHAR if –no-doublequote is specified.
-z FIELD_SIZE_LIMIT, –maxfieldsize FIELD_SIZE_LIMIT
Maximum length of a single field in the input CSV
file.
-e ENCODING, –encoding ENCODING
Specify the encoding of the input CSV file.
-L LOCALE, –locale LOCALE
Specify the locale (en_US) of any formatted numbers.
-S, –skipinitialspace
Ignore whitespace immediately following the delimiter.
–blanks Do not convert “”, “na”, “n/a”, “none”, “null”, “.” to
NULL.
–date-format DATE_FORMAT
Specify a strptime date format string like “%m/%d/%Y”.
–datetime-format DATETIME_FORMAT
Specify a strptime datetime format string like
“%m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p”.
-H, –no-header-row Specify that the input CSV file has no header row.
Will create default headers (a,b,c,…).
-K SKIP_LINES, –skip-lines SKIP_LINES
Specify the number of initial lines to skip (e.g.
comments, copyright notices, empty rows).
-v, –verbose Print detailed tracebacks when errors occur.
-l, –linenumbers Insert a column of line numbers at the front of the
output. Useful when piping to grep or as a simple
primary key.
–zero When interpreting or displaying column numbers, use
zero-based numbering instead of the default 1-based
numbering.
-V, –version Display version information 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 or names to
sort by. Defaults to all columns.
-r, –reverse Sort in descending order.
-y SNIFF_LIMIT, –snifflimit SNIFF_LIMIT
Limit CSV dialect sniffing to the specified number of
bytes. Specify “0” to disable sniffing entirely.
-I, –no-inference Disable type inference when parsing the input.