csvstack¶
Description¶
Stack up the rows from multiple CSV files, optionally adding a grouping value to each row:
usage: csvstack [-h] [-d DELIMITER] [-t] [-q QUOTECHAR] [-u {0,1,2,3}] [-b]
[-p ESCAPECHAR] [-z FIELD_SIZE_LIMIT] [-e ENCODING] [-S] [-H]
[-K SKIP_LINES] [-v] [-l] [--zero] [-V] [-g GROUPS]
[-n GROUP_NAME] [--filenames]
[FILE [FILE ...]]
Stack up the rows from multiple CSV files, optionally adding a grouping value.
positional arguments:
FILE The CSV file(s) to operate on. If omitted, will accept
input as piped data via STDIN.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-g GROUPS, --groups GROUPS
A comma-separated list of values to add as "grouping
factors", one per CSV being stacked. These are added
to the output as a new column. You may specify a name
for the new column using the -n flag.
-n GROUP_NAME, --group-name GROUP_NAME
A name for the grouping column, e.g. "year". Only used
when also specifying -g.
--filenames Use the filename of each input file as its grouping
value. When specified, -g will be ignored.
See also: Arguments common to all tools.
Warning
If you redirect output to an input file like csvstack file.csv > file.csv
, the file will grow indefinitely.
Examples¶
Join a set of files for different years:
csvstack -g 2009,2010 examples/realdata/FY09_EDU_Recipients_by_State.csv examples/realdata/Datagov_FY10_EDU_recp_by_State.csv
Add a single column to the left of a CSV:
csvstack -n NEWCOL -g "" examples/dummy.csv