It's worth noting that a lot of these tricks will break on non-trivial CSV inputs, e.g. ones that contain escaped commas. I like using the shell (and Awk in pa

It's worth noting that a lot of these tricks will break on non-trivial CSV inputs, e.g. ones that contain escaped commas. I like using the shell (and Awk in particular!) as much as anyone, but for CSV I tend to reach for Python's standard csv module[1]. [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html