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Add an index column to a csv using awk

How can I add an index to a csv file using awk? For example lets assume I have a file data.txt I would like to add another column, which is the index. Basically I would like an output of I was trying to use awk ‘{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) print $i}’ but it does not seem to be working right.

Combine multiple files csv into one using awk

I want to combine two .csv files based on the unique id that exists in both files. First file consist of 17 columns and the second one in 2 columns where in both files the first column is the same unique id. In the to be created file 3 i would like 18 columns. I have been trying paste paste

Unzip part of file

Is there a way to unzip part of a .gz file without having to unzip it all? I have a large (~139Gb) zipped .csv.gz file. I have been told that the .csv file has ~540M rows of data. I only need to access a sample of the data in the .csv file and I would be happy for it to

using only ‘grep’ command to get specific column

This below shows this some lines of csv file, i want to get the results that only get the Population column with only using grep command. results i want: The command i made for this problem was which got results below how can i get rid of the rest of things without using awk sed or any other things? Answer

Move all rows in a tsv with a certain date to their own file

I have a TSV file with 4 columns in this format The 4th column is a date string Example : 2020-12-09 12:34:22 I want every row with the same date to go into its own file For example, file 20201209 should have all rows that start with 2020-12-09 in the 4th column file 20201210 should have all rows that start

replace numbers smaller than certain threshold with zero

I have a large data sheet (see below) in .csv format. I want to replace the numbers in each column and row with zero if it is smaller than a certain value, let’s say 0.1. Could anyone give me a hand? Thanks a lot. I guess it can be done with sed as in this example Answer Here is one

Convert CSV to TSV

How do you convert this csv file into a tab delimited file? Notice both the Surverys and Response columns are empty strings. I use this code to convert it to a tab file – It doesn’t convert the last column though. This is the output I get (Notice the last column is omitted) – There are 8 col…