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> 
> The dbf convertor has the option of creating csv using another separator
> than ",", but I have not got this working yet:
> dbf --csv --separator # file.csv file.dbf
> ERROR:  found no file for input
> Please make sure that the last argument is a valid dBASE file.
> Same no matter where I put the --separator #
> 
> It works without the separator option.
> Can someone get the separator option to work?
>

The problem here is that # is a comment character in the shell, so dbf doesn't
see anything after the #, so it quite rightly says it hasn't got a file.

You can quote the # character:

dbf --csv --separator '#' file.csv file.dbf

Anything in single quotes is not interpretted by the shell, so things like *
and # are sent through to the program. 

Cheers

Ian