I have done it in the past by loading the .csv into a spreadsheet program, saving a selection as a PDF file, and then converting the PDF file into text using something like okular or pdftotext. If you do it this way there are a couple of things to be careful of:
1) Just save a selection to be converted to PDF. Some spreadsheet programs try to save a lot of white space, and take forever to finish. I've had this problem with Libreoffice. There may be a problem if there are a zillion columns, because you will get it spread over a lot of pages. There might be a way around that with the PDF settings, but I don't know what it is.
2) You may have to play with programs that will move PDF to text to get the right formatting. I've had reasonable luck with using okular; pdftotext tended to have problems with wide pages.
billo
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 20:05 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
How can I convert a .csv file to text in a Fedora system.
Bob
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