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technically redundant with xsv select, but sometimes when processing very large files you don't want to emit all that data to a pipeline just to immediately discard it

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technically redundant with `xsv select`, but sometimes when processing very large files you don't want to emit all that data to a pipeline just to immediately discard it
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seamusabshere commented Mar 4, 2025
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/// So if you pass `--clean-column-names=stable`, and your original column name is "Column Name",
/// you should pass "column_name" here.
#[structopt(long = "select-columns")]
select_columns: Option<String>,
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i chose to implement this as a single argument with a csv, unlike --drop-row-if-null, because you could easily have 100 columns you want to select out of 1000

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