Question

I need to set a separator “,” on a csv file and on the entire file so it can be human readable when opened with a excel.

I have:

    Message,Uncounted File
    Unknown File Extension,/dir/file1
    Unknown File Extension,/dir/file2
    Unknown File Extension,/dir/file3

and I need

    Message                 Uncounted File
    Unknown File Extension  /dir/file1
    Unknown File Extension  /dir/file2
    Unknown File Extension  /dir/file3

Where Message uncounted file are two columns. The csv file contains reality more columns, this is an extract.
I tried

  S=`echo -e ","`
  sort -t"$S" myfile

and every sort -t possible…

Anyone ?

Answer 1

Try sed. This should give you an idea (its untested though)

sed -i -e 's/,/","/g' input # substitutes , with "," in file input inplace
sed -i -e 's/^|$/"/g' input # adds " to the starting and ending of each line inplace in input