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📺(tv) Tidy Viewer is a cross-platform CLI csv pretty printer that uses column styling to maximize viewer enjoyment.

18 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 17 comments · first 2021-09-27 · latest 2024-01-08

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  1. …be interested in Tidy Viewer with lesspipe.sh [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28670252 [2] https://github.com/alexhallam/tv
    comment by leonim · 2024-01-08 · in Csvlens: Command line CSV file viewer. Like less but made for CSV
  2. See also: (tv) Tidy Viewer. A cross-platform CLI csv pretty printer. https://github.com/alexhallam/tv
    comment by flusteredBias · 2024-01-07 · in Csvlens: Command line CSV file viewer. Like less but made for CSV
  3. https://github.com/alexhallam/tv#inspiration
    comment by flusteredBias · 2022-06-21 · in One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite
  4. …use SQLite I do not output using column mode. I pipe to `tv` (tidy-viewer) to get a pretty output. https://github.com/alexhallam/tv transparency: I am the dev of this utility
    comment by flusteredBias · 2022-06-21 · in One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite
  5. https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/pull/58 I added VisiData in my README and represented it in a positive light in the description. Again, just wanted to apologize for my mistake. #better-together
    comment by flusteredBias · 2021-09-29 · in Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
  6. Love the idea! The issue is already open. I will merge a PR before the next release. https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/issues/49
    comment by flusteredBias · 2021-09-29 · in Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
  7. …that it reads the full file only to grab the number of rows. It only parses(take) the first n rows. https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/blob/b548f0d19f64438d53f732... https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/blob/b548f0d19f64438d53f732...
    comment by flusteredBias · 2021-09-27 · in Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
  8. …this? I see the full dataset being loaded here[1] and the column widths being computed here.[2] [1] https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/blob/main/src/main.rs#L183-... [2] https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/blob/main/src/main.rs#L218-...
    comment by thamer · 2021-09-27 · in Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
  9. …handle then let me know. I will add a tests csv file as part of the current portfolio of test csvs. https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/tree/main/data
    comment by flusteredBias · 2021-09-27 · in Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
  10. …realize this is a tall order, however. With github actions I auto-build binaries for many OSes. See https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/releases/tag/0.0.13 5. What about scrolling? The worst part of viewing CSVs is having to handle wide ones…
    comment by flusteredBias · 2021-09-27 · in Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
  11. And a list of options. Reading the first 80 lines of https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/blob/main/src/main.rs was in some sense more educational than the readme. It, for example, allowed me to make an educated guess as to the answer to the…
    comment by Someone · 2021-09-27 · in Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
  12. …are using 0.0.10 the current version is 0.0.13 2. I need to update the README the binaries are here https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/releases/tag/0.0.13 I recently moved away from manually building binaries to automated building for many…
    comment by flusteredBias · 2021-09-27 · in Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
  13. Demo looks great, alas the prebuilt binaries don't work $ wget https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/releases/download/0.0.10/tidy-viewer --2021-09-27 16:47:43-- https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/releases/download/0.0.10/tidy-viewer Resolving…
    comment by iso1210 · 2021-09-27 · in Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
  14. …read that article when I started making the package. You can see some of the input data here https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/blob/main/data/a.csv . I let the user chose how long the max column width should me then append "...". The…
    comment by flusteredBias · 2021-09-27 · in Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
  15. …xsv! I mention in the readme that command line data manipulation tools are great compliments to tv. https://github.com/alexhallam/tv#tools-to-pair-with-tv
    comment by flusteredBias · 2021-09-27 · in Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
  16. Not OP, but there's a screenshot under https://github.com/alexhallam/tv#1-na-comprehension . Which is actually worse for screen reader users, I suppose.
    comment by GrayShade · 2021-09-27 · in Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
  17. …the end of the output. Just a space after your shell prompt ($), see e.g. `user@~/code/data$cat` in https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/blob/main/img/column_v_tv2.... .
    comment by GrayShade · 2021-09-27 · in Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment