Re: A robust but concise way to read TSV header?

[Peng Yu]

On 6/24/21, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 6/24/21 10:39 AM, Jesse Hathaway wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 9:17 AM Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The following won't work, as it removes empty fields.
>>
>> Would using a CSV be an option rather than a TSV? If so you could use the
>> csv builtin:
>
> If you want a "tsv" builtin, it would take less than five minutes to modify
> the csv builtin to do what you need.
>
> Or extend it so you can specify the delimiter using an option.

I want to avoid my own tsv builtin at this moment.

Native bash code (better than the one that I showed, if available) is preferred.

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Regards,
Peng