This shell script processes a tab-separated values (TSV) file and converts it into a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) format. The script handles cases where fields in the TSV file contain commas, ensuring proper CSV formatting by escaping and quoting such fields. Let's break it down step by step:
This line specifies that the script should be run using the sh
shell.
The main body of the script is an awk
command. awk
is a powerful text-processing tool that works line by line on input text.
BEGIN { ... }
: This block is executed before any lines of input are processed.