File: ptsv.sh
   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 
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  24 
  25 
  26 # ptsv [column names...]
  27 #
  28 # Pick Tab Separated-Values, trying to match the column names given using the
  29 # first line from stdin. Matching works by first trying exact matching, then
  30 # case-insensitive matching, when there's no exact match, finally giving up
  31 # when there's no match either way.
  32 
  33 
  34 case "$1" in
  35     -h|--h|-help|--help)
  36         awk '/^# +ptsv /, /^$/ { gsub(/^# ?/, ""); print }' "$0"
  37         exit 0
  38     ;;
  39 esac
  40 
  41 
  42 awk -F "\t" '
  43     BEGIN {
  44         for (i = 1; i < ARGC; i++) {
  45             colnames[++n] = ARGV[i]
  46             lownames[n] = tolower(ARGV[i])
  47             delete ARGV[i]
  48         }
  49     }
  50 
  51     function findcol(name, lowname, i) {
  52         for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) if (name == $i) return i
  53         for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) if (lowname == tolower($i)) return i
  54 
  55         if (1 <= name && name <= NF) return name + 0
  56         if (name < 0 && -name <= NF) return NF + name + 1
  57 
  58         return 0
  59     }
  60 
  61     { gsub(/\r$/, "") }
  62 
  63     NR == 1 {
  64         for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) {
  65             j = findcol(colnames[i], lownames[i])
  66             if (j > 0) pick[++numcols] = j
  67 
  68             if (j == 0) {
  69                 fmt = "\x1b[31mno column match for \"%s\"\x1b[0m\n"
  70                 printf(fmt, colnames[i]) > "/dev/stderr"
  71                 errors++
  72             }
  73         }
  74 
  75         if (errors > 0) exit 1
  76         if (numcols == 0) exit
  77     }
  78 
  79     {
  80         for (i = 1; i <= numcols; i++) {
  81             if (i > 1) printf "\t"
  82             printf "%s", $(pick[i])
  83         }
  84 
  85         printf "\n"; fflush()
  86     }
  87 ' "$@"