Unrecognized arguments on Ubuntu

[reichaves]

Hi Max I watched your talk at NICAR21. I'm Reinaldo, from Brazil Congratulations on the project I'm using a computer with Ubuntu 20.04 and python 3.8

I tested some commands, but only the first one worked: csvmatch forbes-billionaires.csv bloomberg-billionaires.csv --fields1 name --fields2 Name > billionaires-in-both.csv

The others always show the error: csvmatch: error: unrecognized arguments

csvmatch cia-world-leaders.csv davos-delegates.csv --fields1 name --fields2 full_name --ignore-case > leaders-at-davos.csv usage: csvmatch [-h] [-1 FIELDS1 [FIELDS1 ...]] [-2 FIELDS2 [FIELDS2 ...]] [FILE1] [FILE2] csvmatch: error: unrecognized arguments: --ignore-case

csvmatch forbes-billionaires.csv bloomberg-billionaires.csv --fields1 name --fields2 Name --output 1.name 1.rank 2.Rank > billionaires-in-both-ranked.csv usage: csvmatch [-h] [-1 FIELDS1 [FIELDS1 ...]] [-2 FIELDS2 [FIELDS2 ...]] [FILE1] [FILE2] csvmatch: error: unrecognized arguments: --output 1.name 1.rank 2.Rank

Please, is there any incompatibility with Ubuntu or do I need to install other libraries? Or did I make some silly mistake?

Best

[maxharlow]

Hi Reinaldo, thanks for coming to the session.

This is really odd. Both those commands look completely correct to me, and nothing else should need to be installed. I think you're right, it sounds like it's something about Ubuntu, but unfortunately I don't have easy access to a machine running Ubuntu at the moment.

Could you try running this, and see if it works?

csvmatch cia-world-leaders.csv davos-delegates.csv --ignore-case --fields1 name --fields2 full_name > leaders-at-davos.csv

My theory is that the fields flags are thinking that --ignore-case is the name of a column rather than a field.