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If I understand you correctly, the first line of the data file country-codes.csv contains the labels of the fields, and you would like your output file to keep that as the first line. The remaining lines would be sorted by the value in the 3rd field.

The command you suggest is a good one. It's an appropriate solution that composes various unix shell commands, not what I would call a "workaround." You could create a wrapper around this compound command, following the example shown by the csvheader script in this repository. However I don't think it's necessary to include a script specifically for the use case you describe in this repository. The aim of csvquote is to do one thing, and to be ready to work with other unix commands as you've demonstrated.

from csvquote.