If you wish to use FBCMD along with other scripts, or you would like to Excel or another application to look at your output, you can have FBCMD generate CSV (Comma-Separated Value) output. To turn on CSV output, set the print_csv (-csv) preference to "1". By default, FBCMD will enclose (bookend) a data entry with quotes(") if the entry contains a comma. To make some scripting tasks easier, you can force all entries to be bookended with quotes by setting the csv_force_bookends (-csvf) to "1". You can also customize the CSV format so that it's not really a CSV any more: you can customize the output with the following preferences:
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