A lot of the answers here helped point me in the right direction, however none were suitable for me, so I am posting my solution. I have Windows 7, which comes with PowerShell built-in. Here is the script I used to find/replace all instances of text in a file: powershell -Command “(gc myFile.txt) -replace ‘foo’, … Read more
How do I parse command line arguments in Bash?
Try mkdir -p: mkdir -p foo Note that this will also create any intermediate directories that don’t exist; for instance, mkdir -p foo/bar/baz will create directories foo, foo/bar, and foo/bar/baz if they don’t exist. Some implementation like GNU mkdir include mkdir –parents as a more readable alias, but this is not specified in POSIX/Single Unix … Read more
The test command ([ here) has a “not” logical operator which is the exclamation point (similar to many other languages). Try this: if [ ! -f /tmp/foo.txt ]; then echo “File not found!” fi
A good recommendation I can make for reading/manipulating csv data is pandas. For example reading data using pandas is as simple as: import pandas as pd df = pd.read_csv( “my/path/to/database1.csv” ) The result is a dataframe. A tabular representation of your data which can be manipulated in any number of ways. Writing to a csv … Read more