NAME

reorder-tsv - Reorder columns of TSV file by template

VERSION

version 0.1.0

DESCRIPTION

A script for reordering the columns of a tab-separated value (TSV) file according to the columns of a template TSV file.

The input TSV file can be of any length, but the first line must be a header line. The template TSV file should just contain one header line containing the column names. Any other lines will be ignored.

If the template TSV file contains column names that don't appear in the input TSV file then these columns will be blank in the output.

If the input TSV file contains column names that don't appear in the template TSV file then these columns will be discarded.

USAGE

    reorder-tsv
        [--tsv file]
        [--template file]
        [--help]
        [--man]

EXAMPLES

reorder-tsv --tsv in.tsv --template template.tsv > out.tsv

reorder-tsv --tsv in.tsv.gz --template template.tsv | gzip -c > out.tsv.gz

OPTIONS

--tsv FILE

Input TSV file, with header plus data. The file can optionally be compressed with gzip.

--template FILE

Template TSV file, with header only.

--help

Print a brief help message and exit.

--man

Print this script's manual page and exit.

AUTHOR

Ian Sealy <cpan@iansealy.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2020 by Ian Sealy.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The GNU General Public License, Version 3, June 2007