Question

Just starting out in Unix and need t workout this:-

I have a csv file with 3 columns.
Using Terminal in Unix I need to cut the columns and get each column to create a text file of the info in the column.

Col 1 Col 2 Col 3

col1.txt col2.txt col3.txt

Answer 1

This “oneliner” script should help 🙂 Just insert your CSV data into q.csv file or change the file name in the script.

 for i in `cat q.csv`; do  echo $i|awk  -F, ' { print $1 } ' >> 1.txt  ; echo $i|awk  -F, ' { print $2 } ' >> 2.txt; echo $i|awk  -F, ' { print $3 } ' >> 3.txt; done