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csvgrep: Find rows in which the "name" column does NOT include the string "John Doe".

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$ csvgrep -i -c ${name} -m "${John Doe}" ${data-csv}

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The given command is using the csvgrep command-line tool to search for a specific value in a CSV file.

Here's a breakdown of the command:

csvgrep: This is the command-line tool being used to perform the CSV search operation.
-i: It stands for "ignore case." This flag tells csvgrep to perform a case-insensitive search, meaning it will consider uppercase and lowercase letters as the same.
-c ${name}: This option specifies the column to search in the CSV file. ${name} represents a variable that should contain the column name. For example, if ${name} is replaced with age, it will search in the "age" column.
-m "${John Doe}": This option specifies the search criteria. ${John Doe} represents a variable that should contain the value to search for. The value is enclosed in double quotes to indicate that it is a string.
${data-csv}: This is another variable representing the filename of the CSV file to search in.

Combining all the components, the command searches for the value "John Doe" (case-insensitive) in the column specified by ${name} within the CSV file ${data-csv}.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.

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