On 12/01/11 18:04, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote, On 01/11/2011 07:35 AM: >> >> Spending another few minutes on this, I realized >> that we should not be trying to homogenize the number >> of fields from each file, but rather the fields used >> for a particular file in each line. The only sensible >> basis for that is the first line as previously suggested. >> >> The interface would be a little different for that. >> I was thinking of: >> >> -o 'header' Infer the format from the first line of each file >> > I second the idea of using the first line as the basis for the > auto-formatting, > but have reservation about the wording: '-o header' somewhat implies that the > first line has to be an actual header line (with column names or similar), > while it can just be the first line of actual data if the file doesn't have a > header line. > > Something like '-o auto' might be less confusing.
But less descriptive. I'll go with "auto" as I can't think of anything better. cheers, Padraig.
