in2csv

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

Description

Convert common, but less awesome, tabular data formats to CSV.

Usage

in2csv {options}
Bash equivalent: in2csv {options}
usage: in2csv [-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] [-f FILETYPE] [-s SCHEMA] [-k KEY] [-n]
[–sheet SHEET] [–write-sheets WRITE_SHEETS] [-y SNIFF_LIMIT]
[-I]
[FILE]
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Convert common, but less awesome, tabular data formats to CSV.
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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.
-f FILETYPE, –format FILETYPE
The format of the input file. If not specified will be
inferred from the file type. Supported formats: csv,
dbf, fixed, geojson, json, ndjson, xls, xlsx.
-s SCHEMA, –schema SCHEMA
Specify a CSV-formatted schema file for converting
fixed-width files. See documentation for details.
-k KEY, –key KEY Specify a top-level key to use look within for a list
of objects to be converted when processing JSON.
-n, –names Display sheet names from the input Excel file.
–sheet SHEET The name of the Excel sheet to operate on.
–write-sheets WRITE_SHEETS
The names of the Excel sheets to write to files, or
“-” to write all sheets.
-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 (and –locale, –date-format,
–datetime-format) when parsing CSV input.
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Some command-line flags only pertain to specific input formats.