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Get Column Numbers for CSV file in Bash.bash
# This will take a CSV file as input,
# pull out the header row,
# split that onto new lines
# and then prepend a zero indexed line number to each line
head ./filename.csv -n 1 | sed "s/,/\n/g" | awk '{printf("%d %s\n", NR-1, $0)}'
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