medialab/xan
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The CSV magician
19 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 10 stories, 9 comments · first 2024-05-31 · latest 2026-06-28
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I've been using https://github.com/medialab/xan for anything csv. It's the best tool there is for reading and analyzing csv files, but not for writing them. Something like cell-sheet-tui would fit my workflow very well, since I am using…
comment by rpassos · 2026-04-27 · in Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings -
…within sorted CSV data! [2] [1]: https://docs.rs/simd-csv/latest/simd_csv/struct.Seeker.html [2]: https://github.com/medialab/xan/
comment by Yomguithereal · 2026-02-24 · in Cursed engineering: jumping randomly through CSV files without hurting yourself -
xan, the CSV magician https://github.com/medialab/xan
comment by barmanoo · 2026-02-05 · in I made CSV viewing simple and fast -
…put forth in the blog post But I tried the group's "CSV magician" program and was not impressed https://github.com/medialab/xan The table output seems very similar to sqlite3 It's a 20MB musl dynamically-linked executable (cf. 1.7MB…
comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2025-09-10 · in A love letter to the CSV format (2024) -
Previously: A love letter to the CSV format ( https://github.com/medialab/xan/blob/master/docs/LOVE_LETTER... ) 708 points | 5 months ago | 698 comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484382 )
comment by ayhanfuat · 2025-09-10 · in A love letter to the CSV format (2024) -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43494894 discusses xan https://github.com/medialab/xan readme says this tool is originally a fork of BurntSushi's xsv, but has been nearly entirely rewritten at that point, to fit SciencesPo's médialab…
comment by homarp · 2025-03-30 · in fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' -
The post does mention it, as a positive: https://github.com/medialab/xan/blob/master/docs/LOVE_LETTER...
comment by jimbokun · 2025-03-27 · in A love letter to the CSV format -
…xan has a parallel command able to perform a wide variety of map-reduce tasks on splitted files. https://github.com/medialab/xan
comment by Yomguithereal · 2025-03-26 · in A love letter to the CSV format -
I would add xan to this list: https://github.com/medialab/xan But of course, I am partial ;)
comment by Yomguithereal · 2025-03-26 · in A love letter to the CSV format