csvlens

csvlens is a CSV file viewer in the command line. It is similar to less but made for CSV.

Usage

csvlens <filename>

Supported interactions

• Scroll: hjkl, ← ↓ ↑→ , Page Up, Page Down
• Jump to line n: nG
• Search: /<thing>
  • Go to next result: n
  • Go to previous result: N
• Filter: &<thing> (or //<thing>)

Optional parameters

• -d <delimiter>: Custom delimiter to use when parsing the CSV (e.g. csvlens file.csv -d \t)

Combining with other tools

You can combine csvlens with other CSV processing tools, but there is a gotcha for now: piping data to csvlens doesn't work yet, because stdin is reserved for getting interactive key inputs. You can use process substitution:

csvlens <([your commands producing some csv data])

For example:

csvlens <(xsv frequency data.csv)

Installation

csvlens is available on crates.io, so you can install it using:

cargo install csvlens

Or, build and install from source:

cargo install --path $(pwd)