Csvlens: Command line CSV file viewer. Like less but made for CSV

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  • tidy-viewer

    📺(tv) Tidy Viewer is a cross-platform CLI csv pretty printer that uses column styling to maximize viewer enjoyment.

  • csvlens

    Command line csv viewer

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • ngrid

    It's "less" for data!

  • awk

    One true awk

  • Awk now supports a `--csv` flag for processing csv's. https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/blob/master/README.md

  • sc-im

    sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal

  • While not built around CSV, two terminal spreadsheet tools I have successfully used in the past are sc-im and the (neo)vim plugin vim-table-mode:

    https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/

    https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode

    Back then I stopped using sc-im because it could not import/export XLSX, if I remember correctly. Apparently it can today!

    vim-table-mode always felt a little fragile and I don't want to be bound to vim anymore. That said, it still feels like a small miracle to me to have functional spreadsheet formulas inside markdown documents – calculation and typesetting all in one place.

  • vim-table-mode

    VIM Table Mode for instant table creation.

  • While not built around CSV, two terminal spreadsheet tools I have successfully used in the past are sc-im and the (neo)vim plugin vim-table-mode:

    https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/

    https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode

    Back then I stopped using sc-im because it could not import/export XLSX, if I remember correctly. Apparently it can today!

    vim-table-mode always felt a little fragile and I don't want to be bound to vim anymore. That said, it still feels like a small miracle to me to have functional spreadsheet formulas inside markdown documents – calculation and typesetting all in one place.

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