Tabutils
From BITS wiki
Play with tabular data in general
tabutils [1] are utility scripts for dealing with tab-delimited files. They make things a little bit easier than Awk or Bioawk for the hurried.
In this setup tab-delimited files can comment lines starting with '#'. They may or may not contain headers.
There are three main scripts: filter | merge | view
- tabutils filter file.txt {criteria}
1 eq foo Column 1 (first column) is equal to 'foo' 1 eq foo 2 lt 3 Column 1 (first column) is equal to 'foo' and column 2 is less than 3 Valid operations: eq ne lt lte gt gte contains
- tabutils merge
Merges tab-delimited files together, combining common columns and adding uncommon columns.
- tabutils view
Displays tab-delimited files, spacing columns appropriately to keep them in-line.
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