******************************************************************************** **** NOTE: THIS REPOSITORY HAS MOVED FROM GITHUB. NO FURTHER UPDATES WILL **** **** BE MADE HERE. FOR AN UP TO DATE VERSION OF table, PLEASE GO TO: **** **** https://git.sr.ht/~strahinja/table **** ******************************************************************************** table ===== Command line utility to format and display CSV. Install ------- $ git clone https://github.com/Strahinja/table.git $ cd table $ su Then, if you have apenwarr/redo[1]: # redo install if you don't: # ./do install Examples -------- 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 " " $9 }' \ | table -d ' ' -c 30 -n Configuring GNU Midnight Commander (mc) --------------------------------------- GNU Midnight Commander[2] file manager can be configured to use table as a viewer (F3) for CSV files. To do that, edit /usr/lib/mc/ext.d/text.sh (or make and edit a local copy, for example in ~/bin/text.sh, which we will assume here) so that case "${filetype}" in block in do_view_action() function includes: csv) table -m -n "${MC_EXT_FILENAME}" ;; You also need to edit extension file (Command->Edit extension file) or just edit ~/.config/mc/mc.ext and add the lines: shell/.csv View=%view{ascii} ~/bin/text.sh view csv %var{PAGER:more}</pre> before includes and default target. Configuring ranger file manager ------------------------------- Ranger[3] file manager can be configured to use table as a CSV file viewer. To do that, add the following to ~/.config/ranger/scope.sh, within the function handle_extension(): ## CSV csv) table -m "${FILE_PATH}" && exit 5 exit 1;; Configuring vifm ---------------- Vifm[4] 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 [1]: https://github.com/apenwarr/redo [2]: https://www.midnight-commander.org [3]: https://github.com/ranger/ranger [4]: https://vifm.info License ------- table - Command line utility to format and display CSV. Copyright (C) 2020, 2021 Страхиња Радић This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.