csvlook¶
Description¶
Renders a CSV to the command line in a readable, fixed-width format:
usage: csvlook [-h] [-d DELIMITER] [-t] [-q QUOTECHAR] [-u {0,1,2,3}] [-b]
[-p` ESCAPECHAR] [-e ENCODING]
[FILE]
Render a CSV file in the console as a fixed-width table.
positional arguments:
FILE The CSV file to operate on. If omitted, will accept
input on STDIN.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
If a table is too wide to display properly try truncating it using csvcut.
If the table is too long, try filtering it down with grep or piping the output to less
.
Also see: common_arguments.
Examples¶
Basic use:
$ csvlook examples/testfixed_converted.csv
This utility is especially useful as a final operation when piping through other utilities:
$ csvcut -c 9,1 examples/realdata/FY09_EDU_Recipients_by_State.csv | csvlook