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Created May 15, 2012 15:25
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CSV column compare, one liner
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csv_compare.sh
perl -F, -ape'$_<($x=length$F[i])and$_=$x' file.csv
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mshock commented May 15, 2012

Found myself doing this a lot for specifying sane database column sizes before an import. Can be tweaked to do all sorts of things.

Replace i with the column to be examined.

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