mslusarz/csv-nix-tools

List system information as CSV, manipulate it, pretty print, or export.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2020-01-21 · latest 2026-07-21

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…of bash ways of dealing with lots of data, spaces in file names, etc, so I created csv-nix-tools: https://github.com/mslusarz/csv-nix-tools E.g. removing all temporary files without the need to deal with spaces, glob limits, or silly find…
comment by mslusarz · 2026-07-21 · in I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
…not in any of the major distress but shout out to csv-nix-tools for a valiant effort in this space https://github.com/mslusarz/csv-nix-tools
comment by TristanBall · 2024-06-27 · in Why not parse `ls` and what to do instead
Here's a similar project I've been working on in my spare time: https://github.com/mslusarz/csv-nix-tools . It supports both SQL syntax (SQLite and native) and Unix-like processing (grep, sort, uniq, etc). It also includes source (ls, ps,…
comment by mslusarz · 2021-06-07 · in Q – Run SQL Directly on CSV or TSV Files