[aklug] Re: Viewing CSV/TSV files in 'less' using 'column'

From: barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
Date: Sat Dec 04 2010 - 11:45:41 AKST

Quoting Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com>:

> Just sharing.
>
> I somehow missed using the program 'columns' until now. I've always
> needed a good way of showing data on the console in fixed with columns
> using a delimiter.
>
> 'cat file.csv | column -s, -t | less -N -S'

Thanks for sharing this Shane. It would be great see more of this
sort of thing on the list. This is one of the things that brought me
here so long ago.

Mike B.

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