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I'll sometimes use sed/awk/cut/etc... to get one off summary info out of large files. Excel/LibreOffice would choke, and loading it into a database for one off
by uxcn 12y ago
I'll sometimes use sed/awk/cut/etc... to get one off summary info out of large files. Excel/LibreOffice would choke, and loading it into a database for one off is painful.
- csandreasen 12y agoI fully agree. I find it's worth keeping large files like these in a tab delimited format instead of CSV specifically so that I can run them through the standard Unix tools instead of mucking around with quoting issues and stray commas.