Today I decided to add csv-grep to App::CSVUtils, as an alternative to NEILB's csvgrep (which Neil announced about a week ago). I find csvgrep too simplistic for my taste or future needs. It's basically equivalent to:
% ( head -n1 FILE.CSV; grep PATTERN FILE.CSV ) | csv2asciitable
I also think csvgrep's -d option does not belong. It's not relevant to grepping as well as too case-specific. What if user wants the oldest file in the directory? The biggest? The find or ls command should be able to do that for you:
% csvgrep PATTERN "`ls *.csv –sort=t | head -n1`"
In csv-grep, you specify Perl code instead of regex pattern. Your Perl code receives the CSV row in $_ as an arrayref (or hashref, if you specify -H). So you can filter based on some particular fields and use the full expressive Power of Perl. csv-grep outputs CSV, but you can convert it to other formats by the abovementioned csv2asciitable, or to JSON with csv2json, or to Perl data structure with csv2dd, or what have you.
Aside from csv-grep, App::CSVUtils also includes a bunch of other CSV utilities which I wrote when I needed to munge CSV files a few months back. Check it out.
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