Command line utility to format and display CSV.
C compiler, preferably GNU C or similar, GNU libunistring.
$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~strahinja/table $ cd table $ su
Then, if you have apenwarr/redo:
# redo install
if you don't:
# ./do install
Periodically display CPU load information in a single-line table
$ watch "table /proc/loadavg -d ' ' -c 50 -n -s ss"
Format a long list of files in the current directory in a double line table with single-line column divisors
$ LC_ALL=C ls -l | tail -n +2 | sed -e 's/ \+/ /g' | table -d ' ' -n
Like the above, but only permissions and file names are printed in a narrow table
$ LC_ALL=C ls -l | tail -n +2 | awk '{ print $1 " " $9 }' | table -d ' ' -c 30 -n
GNU Midnight
Commander file manager can be configured to use table as a
viewer (F3) for CSV files. To do that, edit
/usr/lib/mc/ext.d/text.sh
(or make and edit a local copy,
for example in ~/bin/text.sh
, which we will assume here) so
that
case "${filetype}" in
block in do_view_action()
function includes:
csv) table -m -n "${MC_EXT_FILENAME}" ;;
You also need to edit extension file (Command->Edit extension
file) or just edit ~/.config/mc/mc.ext
and add the
lines:
shell/.csv View=%view{ascii} ~/bin/text.sh view csv %var{PAGER:more}
before includes and default target.
Ranger file manager
can be configured to use table as a CSV file viewer. To do that, add the
following to ~/.config/ranger/scope.sh
, within the function
handle_extension()
:
## CSV csv) table -m "${FILE_PATH}" && exit 5 exit 1;;
Vifm file manager can also be
configured to use table as a CSV file viewer. To accomplish this, add
the following lines to ~/.config/vifm/vifmrc
:
" CSV fileviewer *.csv \ table -m %c
table - Command line utility to format and display CSV.
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