xsv VS lnav

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xsv lnav
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10,080 6,686
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0.0 9.5
2 months ago 1 day ago
Rust C++
The Unlicense BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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xsv

Posts with mentions or reviews of xsv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-02.
  • Show HN: TextQuery – Query and Visualize Your CSV Data in Minutes
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2024
    I realize it's not really that comparable since these tools don't support SQL, but a more fully functioned CLI tool is - https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

    They are both fairly good

  • Qsv: Efficient CSV CLI Toolkit
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2023
  • Joining CSV Data Without SQL: An IP Geolocation Use Case
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2023
    I have done some similar, simpler data wrangling with xsv (https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv) and jq. It could process my 800M rows in a couple of minutes (plus the time to read it out from the database =)
  • Qsv: CSVs sliced, diced and analyzed (fork of xsv)
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2023
    xsv, which seems to be why qsv was created.

    [1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv/issues/267

  • I wrote this iCalendar (.ics) command-line utility to turn common calendar exports into more broadly compatible CSV files.
    6 projects | /r/commandline | 24 Mar 2023
    CSV utilities (still haven't pick a favorite one...): https://github.com/harelba/q https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
  • Icsp – Command-line iCalendar (.ics) to CSV parser
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2023
  • ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift}
    8 projects | /r/programming | 24 Mar 2023
    $ git remote -v origin [email protected]:rust-lang/rust (fetch) origin [email protected]:rust-lang/rust (push) $ git rev-parse HEAD 3b0d4813ab461ec81eab8980bb884691c97c5a35 $ time grep -ri burntsushi ./ ./src/tools/cargotest/main.rs: repo: "https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep", ./src/tools/cargotest/main.rs: repo: "https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv", grep: ./target/debug/incremental/cargotest-2dvu4f2km9e91/s-gactj3ma2j-1b10l4z-2l60ur55ixe6n/query-cache.bin: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/incremental/cargotest-38cpmhhbdgdyq/s-gactj3luwq-1o12vgp-t61hd8qdyp7t/query-cache.bin: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/incremental/cargotest-17632op6djxne/s-gawuq5468i-1h69nfw-4gm0s8yhhiun/query-cache.bin: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/incremental/cargotest-2trm4kt5yom3r/s-gawuq53qqg-bjiezj-lo0gha8ign8w/query-cache.bin: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/deps/libregex_automata-c74a6d9fd0abd77b.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/deps/libsame_file-a0e0363a2985455d.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/deps/libsame_file-a0e0363a2985455d.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./target/debug/deps/libsame_file-7251d8d3586a319b.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-sysroot/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libaho_corasick-999a08e2b700420d.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-sysroot/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libregex_automata-0d168be5d25b3ac5.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libregex_automata-7d6bec0156f15da1.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libregex_automata-7d6bec0156f15da1.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libaho_corasick-07dee4514b87d99b.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libaho_corasick-07dee4514b87d99b.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-rustc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libaho_corasick-999a08e2b700420d.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-rustc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libaho_corasick-999a08e2b700420d.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-rustc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libregex_automata-0d168be5d25b3ac5.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0-rustc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/libregex_automata-0d168be5d25b3ac5.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libaho_corasick-992e1ba08ef83436.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libignore-54d41239d2761852.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libsame_file-9a5e3ddd89cfe599.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libregex_automata-8e700951c9869a66.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libignore-54d41239d2761852.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libaho_corasick-992e1ba08ef83436.rlib: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libregex_automata-8e700951c9869a66.rmeta: binary file matches grep: ./build/bootstrap/debug/deps/libsame_file-9a5e3ddd89cfe599.rmeta: binary file matches real 16.683 user 15.793 sys 0.878 maxmem 8 MB faults 0
  • Any Linux admins willing to try Pygrep?
    6 projects | /r/linuxadmin | 18 Mar 2023
    Unrelated, are you the same burntsushi that wrote xsv?
  • Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2023
    If it could be tabular in nature, maybe convert to sqlite3 so you can make use of indexing, or CSV to make use of high-performance tools like xsv or zsv (the latter of which I'm an author).

    https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

    https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv/blob/main/docs/csv_json_sql...

  • What monitoring tool do you use or recommend?
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 6 Mar 2023
    Oh and there's rad cli shit out there for CSV files too, like xsv

lnav

Posts with mentions or reviews of lnav. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-26.
  • FLaNK Stack 26 February 2024
    50 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2024
  • LNAV – The Logfile Navigator
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2024
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Feb 2024
  • Toolong: Terminal application to view, tail, merge, and search log files
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2024
    The code base seems like a good reference as a small Python project.

    My fav option in this class of apps: https://lnav.org/ It lets you use journalctl with pipes as requested here: https://github.com/Textualize/toolong/issues/4

  • Logdy.dev – web based logs viewer UI for local development environment
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Feb 2024
    For local development, I cannot recommend lnav[1] enough. Discovering this tool was a game changer in my day to day life. Adding comments, filtering in/out, prettify and analyse distribution is hard to live without now.

    I don't think a browser tool would fit in my workflow. I need to pipe the output to the tool.

    [1] https://lnav.org/

  • Textanalysistool.net
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jan 2024
  • Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
    212 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2023
  • Ask HN: How does `lnav` run its playground which you can just SSH into?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Nov 2023
    It looks like they run an SSH server inside a Docker container defined by this Dockerfile [1]. This uses the ForceCommand directive in the sshd_config file to ensure that a specific command is run when a user connects (rather than the user connecting directly to a shell).

    Depending on whether the user connects as the `playground` or `tutorial1` user they interact with a bash script that is either [2] or [3].

    [1]: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/demo/Dockerfile

    [2]: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/docs/tutorials/pl...

    [3]: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/docs/tutorials/tu...

  • Show HN: Tailspin – A Log File Highlighter
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Nov 2023
    This is really pretty - I do really wish for a good rust replacement for lnav[1] someday.

    1: https://lnav.org/

  • Structured Logging with Slog
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2023
    > I also don't see something else I might want: a way to have a different "view" for certain log messages; maybe to switch between filtering/viewing particular ones, maybe to just have line-format be conditional based on the detected format.

    Have a look at the following comment on an issue that might be similar to what you're thinking of:

    https://github.com/tstack/lnav/issues/1065#issuecomment-1602...

    > I guess I can sort of do this based on `module-field`? but I might want it lighter-weight/finer-grained than that.

    Unfortunately, the "module-field" does not work for JSON logs at the moment. It's something I should really fix.

    Ultimately, lnav has existed for almost two decades now and I use it every day. So, it's always seeing improvements. If you're having a problem with it, file an issue on github. I don't always get around quickly to fixing other folks feature requests / issues, but it tends to happen eventually.

    Thanks.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xsv and lnav you can also consider the following projects:

csvtk - A cross-platform, efficient and practical CSV/TSV toolkit in Golang

lightproxy - 💎 Cross platform Web debugging proxy

miller - Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON

dive - A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

glow - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻

Servo - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine

GoAccess - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

Fractalide - Reusable Reproducible Composable Software

conio-for-linux - Conio.h for linux

svgcleaner - svgcleaner could help you to clean up your SVG files from the unnecessary data.

nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager