Yeah, I had tried -csvdelim and then TAB (as in I hit TAB instead of a comma or other normal delimiter) and was NOT surprised when that didn't work. I then tried looking up the ASCII equivalent and there were too many possibilities so I then Googled "ADfind tab delimiter" and the first hit got me the answer :-)
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 1:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CSVDE is killing me On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Brian Desmond <br...@briandesmond.com> wrote: >> Turns out tab delimited is an undocumented (not in adfind advanced >> help /??) "\t" switch. > > \t is the control code for a tab. If all you're doing is > passing-csvdelim "\t", then I'd say it's perfectly documented. Well, the documentation for the "-csvdelim" just says "Delimiter to use for separating attributes in CSV output, default (,)." I don't find any discussion of control character syntax; the docs never mention that backslash has any special meaning. "\t" is by no means universal or automatic; programs have to implement it explicitly. The user has no way of knowing that. Other syntax might be used (^T for example), or none at all. However, six lines previous in the documentation, this is given: -jtsv Combines -csv -csvdelim \t -csvmvdelim | So it gets used in an example. But you'd have to know to go to look for it, or happen to notice it, or read every single line, to know that "\t" means something special. And we still don't know if, say, "\n" or "\f" might also be interpreted specially. So I wouldn't call it "undocumented", but I wouldn't call it "perfectly documented", either. :) (Reference: http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/usage.htm) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
