Detail: [#1053] Please make it possible to cat rows

[#1053] Please make it possible to cat rows

Date:
2011-11-08 17:22 Priority:
3

State:
Closed

Submitted by:
Reuben Thomas (rrt) Assigned to:
Christophe Troestler (chris)

Product:
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All

Component:
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Summary:
Please make it possible to cat rows

Detailed description
Indeed, I'm a bit surprised that "cat" doesn't do this, as it's redundant as it is (/bin/cat is just as good).

Message
Date: 2013-05-07 21:30 Sender: Reuben Thomas Thank you so much! I'll let you know how I get on.
Date: 2013-05-07 21:28 Sender: Christophe Troestler Your wish has been granted: https://forge.ocamlcore.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=csv/csv.git;a=commit;h=eac94f61f707a63ad7ad5ed7572d9a5d817cbd43 Please test it and report any problem.
Date: 2013-05-07 21:13 Sender: Christophe Troestler You can also use "cat" to change the separation char or to "normalize" your file.
Date: 2013-05-06 23:20 Sender: Reuben Thomas I think I've confused columns and rows (again): what I'm after here is a command to cat columns on to a CSV file. (I suppose the reason to use csvtool cat rather than /bin/cat is to avoid repeating the first line, i.e. the column headings.)
Date: 2011-11-08 17:44 Sender: Reuben Thomas I see that I can do this with paste -d ",", by the way, so if you (understandably) don't want to change the meaning of "cat", you could call a new command to do this "paste".

Field	Old Value	Date	By
status_id	Open	2013-05-07 21:28	chris
close_date	None	2013-05-07 21:28	chris
assigned_to	none	2013-05-07 21:13	chris