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Filtering data by column with csvkit

Let's get some hands-on practice for filtering data column using the csvkit command csvcut. Remember that we can filter columns by referring to the position of the column (e.g. 1st column, 2nd column) or by referring to the exact name of the column as it appears in the data file.

This exercise is part of the course

Data Processing in Shell

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Print a list of column headers in the data 
csvcut -n Spotify_MusicAttributes.csv

# Print the first column, by position
csvcut -c ___ Spotify_MusicAttributes.csv
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