The Computer Oracle

Unix command-Line CSV viewer

--------------------------------------------------
Hire the world's top talent on demand or became one of them at Toptal: https://topt.al/25cXVn
and get $2,000 discount on your first invoice
--------------------------------------------------

Take control of your privacy with Proton's trusted, Swiss-based, secure services.
Choose what you need and safeguard your digital life:
Mail: https://go.getproton.me/SH1CU
VPN: https://go.getproton.me/SH1DI
Password Manager: https://go.getproton.me/SH1DJ
Drive: https://go.getproton.me/SH1CT


Music by Eric Matyas
https://www.soundimage.org
Track title: Underwater World

--

Chapters
00:00 Unix Command-Line Csv Viewer
00:24 Answer 1 Score 5
01:36 Accepted Answer Score 7
01:52 Answer 3 Score 9
02:13 Answer 4 Score 3
02:21 Thank you

--

Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/264003/u...

--

Content licensed under CC BY-SA
https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/lice...

--

Tags
#commandline #unix #csv #viewer

#avk47



ANSWER 1

Score 9


It seems like this question overlaps (at least partially) with my similar question on StackOverflow:

Command line CSV viewer?

The top answer there is currently:

column -s, -t < somefile.csv | less -#2 -N -S

(Please see the link for more details.)




ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 7


sc is a command-line spreadsheet program that's been around a long time, likely available in your package manager. Here's a Linux Journal intro article to it:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10699




ANSWER 3

Score 5


There's a tool, CSVfix, which helps with viewing CSV files.

CSVfix is a command-line stream editor specifically designed to deal with CSV data. With it you can, among other things:

  • Convert fixed format, multi-line and DSV files to CSV
  • Reorder, remove, split and merge fields
  • Convert case, trim leading & trailing spaces
  • Search for specific content using regular expressions
  • Filter out duplicate data or data on exclusion lists
  • Perform sed/perl style editing
  • Enrich with data from other sources
  • Add sequence numbers and file source information
  • Split large CSV files into smaller files based on field contents
  • Perform arithmetic calculations on individual fields
  • Validate CSV data against a collection of validation rules
  • Convert between CSV and fixed format, XML, SQL and DSV
  • Summarise CSV data, calculating averages, modes, frequencies etc.

A simple way to view CSV files on the command-line is to pipe the .csv file into the column utility with the column delimiter set as a comma:

column -s, -t yourfile.csv



ANSWER 4

Score 3


The powerful program vim have a plugin for .csv files in CSV Plugin and its screenshot is

enter image description here