csvkitHow to convert a csv file to tab delimited with csvkit?

csvkit is a suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats. To convert a csv file to tab delimited with csvkit, the csvformat command can be used.

Example code

csvformat -t input.csv > output.tsv

Output example

column1 column2 column3
value1  value2  value3

Code explanation

• csvformat: the command used to convert a csv file to tab delimited
• -t: the flag used to specify the output delimiter as tab
• input.csv: the input csv file
• output.tsv: the output tab delimited file

Helpful links

• csvkit documentation

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