datamash issue

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 13:31 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > > cat: /home/dave/node_modules/plantower/atbarrys/.csvdatamash:
> > > invalid option -- 'R'
>
> After looking this over I realize that I have unintentionally misled
> you. The lines I showed are part of a script (in the error case) and
> standalone in the second case. $target is defined when the script
> runs without the -R and works fine.

Looking at the first error message, there is nothing between the path
and ".csv". This suggests that $target was not defined. If you know it
was not defined and do not care, all is well. If you expected it to be
defined, then I suggest you put this line immediately before the cat
line to find out for sure:

   echo "[$target]"

Also, piping cat really is the wrong way to do it...

Regards, K.

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