csvtool does not call exported bash function

[zasran]

csvtool man page claims that csvtool call would call exported bash function if it was exported using export -f.

However it does not work (assumes function hello that just echos 'hello'):

# not exported yet
$ bash -c hello
bash: yo: command not found
$ export -f hello
# verify export worked
$ bash -c hello
hello
# now try to use csvtool as described in the man page
$ csvtool call hello /some/file
sh: 1: hello: not found
hello: terminated with exit code 127

Per manual page the above should work.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Iain Elder (iainelder)]

In the meantime you might want to look at the csvkit suite.

"csvkit is to tabular data what the standard Unix text processing suite (grep, sed, cut, sort) is to text."

http://csvkit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Krzysztof Dorosz released an extension called csvpys that can compute arbitrary Python expressions over each row.

https://github.com/cypreess/csvkit/blob/master/docs/scripts/csvpys.rst

[Iain Elder (iainelder)]

Sent zasran's bug report to the csvtool maintainers.

https://forge.ocamlcore.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1374&group_id=113&atid=535

[ChriS (christophe-troestler)]

This is because /bin/sh is used to run commands and this is no longer /bin/bash

I commited a fix and released version 1.3.3