fmt.md

fmt

Reformat a CSV with different delimiters, record terminators or quoting rules. (Supports ASCII delimited data.)

Table of Contents | Source: src/cmd/fmt.rs

Description | Usage | Fmt Options | Common Options

Description ↩

Formats CSV data with a custom delimiter or CRLF line endings.

Generally, all commands in qsv output CSV data in a default format, which is the same as the default format for reading CSV data. This makes it easy to pipe multiple qsv commands together. However, you may want the final result to have a specific delimiter or record separator, and this is where 'qsv fmt' is useful.

For examples, see https://github.com/dathere/qsv/blob/master/tests/test_fmt.rs.

Usage ↩

qsv fmt [options] [<input>]
qsv fmt --help

Fmt Options ↩

Option	Type	Description	Default
‑t, ‑‑out‑delimiter	string	The field delimiter for writing CSV data. Must be a single character. If set to "T", uses tab as the delimiter.	,
‑‑crlf	flag	Use '\r\n' line endings in the output.
‑‑ascii	flag	Use ASCII field and record separators. Use Substitute (U+00A1) as the quote character.
‑‑quote	string	The quote character to use.	"
‑‑quote‑always	flag	Put quotes around every value.
‑‑quote‑never	flag	Never put quotes around any value.
‑‑escape	string	The escape character to use. When not specified, quotes are escaped by doubling them.
‑‑no‑final‑newline	flag	Do not write a newline at the end of the output. This makes it easier to paste the output into Excel.

Common Options ↩

Option	Type	Description	Default
‑h, ‑‑help	flag	Display this message
‑o, ‑‑output	string	Write output to instead of stdout.
‑d, ‑‑delimiter	string	The field delimiter for reading CSV data. Must be a single character. (default: ,)

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Source: src/cmd/fmt.rs | Table of Contents | README