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# 2025-10-17 - CSV Viewer With Awk And Gopher |
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I scattered CSV files throughout my gopherhole. It recently occurred |
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to me to make them more viewable within gopher clients. My basic |
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strategy is to use `uncsv` to convert to TSV format, and then use an |
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AWK script to flatten the data for viewing in gopher clients. This |
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follows conventions of keeping the intelligence server side rather |
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than leaning on client-side scripting. |
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> Intelligence is held by the server. ... Further intelligence to be |
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> borne by the protocol should be minimized. |
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> From: RFC 1436 |
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uncsv |
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RFC 1436 |
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Recently i wrote a similar AWK script to flatten tabular data. |
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Awesome Curated List of Mind Expanding Books |
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For this post, i adapted this script to work with any CSV file. |
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See items below for code. |
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csv2gph.sh |
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csv2gph.awk |
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I use it like so: |
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bin/csv2gph.sh public_gopher/books/serial-reading.csv \ |
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public_gopher/books/serial-reading/index.gph |
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You can view the resulting gophermaps below. |
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free-ebooks.csv |
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serial-reading.csv |
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to-read.csv |
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The gophermaps link to the original CSV files, to make it easy to |
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access the data outside of the gopher client. |
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tags: book,technical |
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