tag2tab1

Usage

Overview

tag2tab takes a tag format file on standard input, and outputs those fields specified on the command line, separated by tab characters.

Options

-h

Disables normal header processing. If this is not present then the first record is assumed to be a header, and will not be output to the tabbed file.

-m

Mime flag - output the names of the fields from the command line as the first line of the output file. This produces a file in the format of the Mime text/tab-separated-values file type.

-t fieldname...

Specifies the names of the fields from the tagged file which are to be output.

-D

Take the list of fields from the descriptor for the tag file. Note that this conflicts with -h as the tag file must have a header in order to locate the descriptor file.

Either -t fieldname... or -D must be specified to obtain interesting output.