Don't use CSV files... If I'm working with a datafile where I expect the delimiter to be in one of the fields, there is something wrong. This is one reason wh

Don't use CSV files... If I'm working with a datafile where I expect the delimiter to be in one of the fields, there is something wrong. This is one reason why I always work with tab delimited files. Having an actual tab character isn't very common in free-text fields, at least in the data that I work with. Commas on the other hand, are quite common. Why one would select a field separator that was common in your data is beyond me (I know it's historical). Your data files might be different, in which case, maybe you should select a different field separator. Otherwise, no, there is no work around. If you have to quote fields, then you can't use the normal unix command line tools that tokenize fields.