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TL;DR

csvgrep

Filter CSV rows with string and pattern matching. Included in csvkit. More information: https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/scripts/csvgrep.html.

  • Find rows that have a certain string in column 1:

csvgrep -c 1 -m string_to_match data.csv

  • Find rows in which columns 3 or 4 match a certain regular expression:

csvgrep -c 3,4 -r regular_expression data.csv

  • Find rows in which the “name” column does NOT include the string “John Doe”:

csvgrep -i -c name -m "John Doe" data.csv

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