As a real-world example, recently I have been working with gigabytes of CSV files that I have been converting using a Python script to a file that contains SQL commands to insert the information. To ...

C is certainly more important than Bash, and I would say Python too. Al writes a lot in bash b/c he knows it and likes it. I write tons of little utilities in bash, but when they get to be longer ...

CSV, of course, stands for "Comma Separated Values", more often than not though, it seems that CSV files use tabs to separate values rather than commas. And let's not even mention field quoting. If ...