view the column names for CSV file?

Question

i have a CSV file i want to get the columns name for each column

sample :

how can i do that with awk or sed or grep ??

Please add your desired output for that sample input to your question. — Cyrus, Jun 24 '18 at 7:51

Cyrus · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-24 09:05:43Z

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head -n 1 file.csv

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sed 1q file.csv

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grep -m 1 '' file.csv

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awk 'NR==1 {print; exit}' file.csv

answered Jun 24 '18 at 8:53

Cyrus

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As print is the default action you can shorten the awk command to awk NR==1 file.csv. – dessert Jun 24 '18 at 9:17
@dessert: Thank you. I'm aware of that. This way awk reads only the first line of the file. – Cyrus Jun 24 '18 at 9:20
I don’t understand – awk 'NR==1 {print; exit}' does the exact same as awk NR==1. – dessert Jun 24 '18 at 10:30
@dessert when awk NR==1, still awk will read your whole file's lines where those are not necessary to read. Also that can be only awk '{print; exit}' – αғsнιη Jun 24 '18 at 10:48
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or awk '1;{exit}' – glenn jackman Jun 24 '18 at 11:09

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