To be fair, sometimes calling some giant java library or installing tons of dependencies is just not realistic. Use the library for the mission critical stuff

To be fair, sometimes calling some giant java library or installing tons of dependencies is just not realistic. Use the library for the mission critical stuff or the automated reporting without a doubt, but it's important to be practical and thinking on your feet as well. In the meantime for quick analysis and testing 90% + can be accomplished with one line of (g)awk. awk -v FPAT='"[^"]*"|[^,]*' -v OFS='\t' '{$1=$1; print $0}' "$filename" More on FPAT [here](https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Splitting-By-Content https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Splitting...)