I alway just use awk to process csv files. awk -F '^"|","|"$|,' '{print $2,$3}' whatever.csv The above works perfectly well, it handles quoted fields, or

I alway just use awk to process csv files. awk -F '^"|","|"$|,' '{print $2,$3}' whatever.csv The above works perfectly well, it handles quoted fields, or even just unquoted fields.... This snippet is taken from a presentation I give on AWK and BASH scripting. That's the thing about AWK, it's already does everything. No need to extended it much at all.