Parsing a comma seperated file with shell
Published: Thursday, Sep 24, 2009 Last modified: Monday, Nov 11, 2024
Make sure you read the file line by line correctly using a while read construct.
while read -r line
do
IFS=","
set -- $line
echo $4 >> $1.mdwn
echo "$line"
done < "m4.2_testplan.csv"
Use set
to parse the CSV. It doesn’t do a perfect job, but it’s usually ok.
In the above example I’m splitting a test description from column 4 into a file named after the id from column 1.