dbf2csv

Small command line utility to convert simple *.DBF files to *.CSV

Install

pip install dbf2csv

Usage

dbf2csv [-h] [-v] [-ie INPUT_ENCODING] [-oe OUTPUT_ENCODING]
			   [-q {minimal,all,non-numeric,none}] [-d DELIMITER_CHAR]
			   [-e ESCAPE_CHAR]
			   input [output]

small utility to convert simple *.DBF files to *.CSV

positional arguments:
  input
  output

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -ie INPUT_ENCODING, --input-encoding INPUT_ENCODING
						charset of *.dbf files (default: cp850)
  -oe OUTPUT_ENCODING, --output-encoding OUTPUT_ENCODING
						charset of *.csv files (default: utf8)
  -q {minimal,all,non-numeric,none}, --quoting-mode {minimal,all,non-numeric,none}
						quoting mode for csv files (default: minimal)
  -d DELIMITER_CHAR, --delimiter-char DELIMITER_CHAR
						delimiter char for csv files (default: ",")
  -e ESCAPE_CHAR, --escape-char ESCAPE_CHAR
						escape char for csv files (default: "\")

Example

dbf2csv input.dbf > output.csv

# Grep output
dbf2csv file.dbf | grep <filter_string>

# Convert all *.dbf files from current dir, tab-delimited CSV
dbf2csv . output/ -d $'\t'

# Convert all *.dbf files from input dir to output dir, with charset conversion, quote all fields
dbf2csv /path/to/input/dir/ /path/to/output/dir/ -ie cp866 -oe cp1251 -q all