Tbl enables you to quickly format textual data (e.g. CSVs) into tables.
git clone https://github.com/x-zvf/tbl
cd tbl
cargo build --release- Quickly view a CSV
~$ tbl constants.csv
Name │Symbol│Value │Unit│Info
──────────────────┼──────┼────────────────┼────┼───────────
Speed of light │c │299792458 │m/s │in vacuum
Plank constant │h │6.62607015×10−34│eVs │
Euler's number │e │2.71828 │ │approximate
Boltzmann constant│k │1.380649×10−23 │J/K │
- You can specify titles, select a subset of columns, sort by columns, align values and more.
~$ tbl users.csv -t Birthday,Name,Email -s --sort-by 1l -c '1,2;3,4' -l 'l | c | l' --decoration full
┌───────────┬──────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
│Birthday │ Name │ Email │
├───────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│1973-04-23 │ Holley Garland │ matilde_pinkerton0738@gmail.com│
│1980-03-05 │ Taylor Wendt │ lincoln580@nav.com │
│1991-05-08 │ Shaunda Keegan │ sooames74@gmail.com │
│1997-08-13 │ Loraine Yoo │ marquerite4@hotmail.com │
│2000-08-01 │ Dominique Alonso │ clarinda-nance@hotmail.com │
│2006-01-01 │ Lorie Chin │ vicente.donovan@movie.com │
│2008-12-22 │ Lauralee Bey │ kenisha483@constraints.com │
│2011-07-19 │ Mohammed Horn │ lizethbolin@yahoo.com │
│2018-09-11 │ Edythe Frey │ misti.franco61@bidder.com │
│2021-02-28 │ Star Bolt │ rodrick703@yahoo.com │
└───────────┴──────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
Usage: tbl [OPTIONS] [FILE]
Arguments:
[FILE]
The input file, default is STDIN
Options:
-t, --headers <HEADERS>
Headers of columns
-c, --columns <COLUMNS>
Specify input should be mapped to which output columns.
The mapping for each output column is separated by ','.
An output column can be mapped to:
([+-]\d+) A single input column, negative indices
count from the back.
(([+-]\d+);)+([+-]\d+) A list of columns, separated by ';'
([+-]\d+)..=?([+-]\d+)? A range (rust range syntax) of columns
Optionally, after a non-single mapping a '>' character can be put,
the string after which will be used to join the columns. If this
is not specified, " " is used.
Example: -c '3,0..=2>/,-3;5;4,-2..'
The 3rd (zero-indexed) column should become the 0th, columns 0,1,2
should be joined together by '/' to create the first column, the 3rd-to
-last column and columns 5 and 4 joined by ' ' will be the second, and
the second-to-last and last columns joined by ' ' will be the third
column.
-l, --layout <LAYOUT>
Specify column alignment and vertical separators.
Columns can be aligned to the left, to the right, or centered, which can
be specified by 'l', 'r' or 'c' respectively.
Each column alignment may be separated by any combination of ' ' and
'|', which will be used as the column divider. Be careful, e.g. 'lll'
results in all 3 columns not being separated by anything.
Example: -a 'l|l|r' results in:
10000|2000|3000
40 |50 | 60
Example: -a 'l c|| r' results in:
10000 2000|| 3000
40 50 || 60
-w, --fixed-width <FIXED_WIDTH>
Specify fixed sizes for columns.
Each column declaration is delimited by ','. Each size is the width, a
positive number, followed by the overflow specifier 'b','c', or 'e'.
Overflow specifiers:
b Break table layout
c Cut string
e Cut string, but replace the last 3 visible characters by
ellipsis (...)
--decoration <DECORATION>
How the table should look
[default: underline-header]
[possible values: underline-header, none, full]
-a, --ascii
Do not use Unicode characters for displaying table borders
-s, --sort
Sort the output, as specified by the rules of --sort-by
--sort-by <SORT_BY>
Specify the keys by which the output should be sorted.
Multiple levels of sorting can be specified, delimited by ','. Each sort
level is a column number followed by the sort type ([+-]\d+)[lLnN]
Sort type:
l lexicographic, ascending
L lexicographic, descending
n numeric, ascending
N numeric, descending
Example: --sort-by '2n,1l'
Sorting is done numerically in ascending order, based on the second
column (zero-indexed). If the second column is equal, rows are
further sorted lexicographically, in ascending order by the first
column.
--sort-by-output
Apply sort-by to OUTPUT instead of INPUT columns
--sort-ignore-first
Ignore the first line when sorting.
This is useful, if the first row contains column headers.
-u, --unique
Remove duplicate lines from output.
Duplicate removal is done based on the OUTPUT columns
-d, --delimiter <DELIMITER>
String by which to separate the input columns
[default: ,]
-D, --collapse-delimiters
Collapse a sequence of multiple delimiters in a row into a single one.
By default, empty columns are created instead.
-h, --help
Print help (see a summary with '-h')
-V, --version
Print version
Contributions are welcome. In particular, I would appreciate more thorough unit and integration testing, documentation and packaging for distributions. New features are also welcome, but please keep in mind, that tbl should not become a replacement for AWK, Perl, Python, and others.
This project is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for a copy.