Simple way of using csv files as dataformat in bashscripts.

getCSVColumn

# example usage: cat foo.csv | while read line; do getCSVColumn "$line" 2; done

getCSVColumn(){
   echo "$1" | sed 's/,,,/###/g' | sed 's/,,/##/g' | sed 's/,/#/g' | cut -f$2 -d"#" | sed 's/"//g'
}