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A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2013-10-20 · latest 2026-04-27

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  1. csvkit ( https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit ) has a "csvlook" command, and yq ( https://github.com/mikefarah/yq ) supports CSV as an input format.
    comment by bewuethr · 2026-04-27 · in Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings
  2. …sign because HN won't let me use U+1F40D), or just parse it by hand, e.g. row.split('\t') . [1]: https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit/issues/1194 [2]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html
    comment by ciupicri · 2025-03-26 · in A love letter to the CSV format
  3. …haven't pick a favorite one...): https://github.com/harelba/q https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
    comment by lot3oo · 2023-03-25 · in icsp – Command-line iCalendar (.ics) to CSV parser
  4. …but I will try just about anything with BurntSushi's name on it. Ripgrep is an amazing tool. [0]: https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit
    comment by nerdponx · 2017-05-31 · in Tad, a tabular data viewer
  5. …--insert data.csv sql2csv --db postgresql:///database --query "select * from data" > extract.csv https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit (Submitted a pull request.)
    comment by chishaku · 2016-05-07 · in A list of command line tools for manipulating structured text data
  6. I love csvkit[0] for this purpose [0] https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit
    comment by michaelmior · 2015-08-16 · in Miller is like sed, awk, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV
  7. CSVKit: https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit and The R Project for Statistical Computing: http://www.r-project.org/
    comment by gexos · 2014-08-13 · in Ask HN: What's your favorite command-line tool for working with data?
  8. …Subsequently also I discovered CSVKIT, a python implementation which is probably more robust: https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit
    comment by dergachev · 2014-02-04 · in Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV
  9. …lib, but I've had a lot of success with csvkit [0], json2csv [1] and json directly with jq [2]. [0] https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit [1] https://github.com/jehiah/json2csv [2] https://github.com/stedolan/jq
    comment by thezilch · 2013-11-12 · in CSVfix is a tool for manipulating CSV data
  10. …we have utilities to deal with JSON [0] and CSV [1] output. [0] https://github.com/stedolan/jq [1] https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit
    comment by thezilch · 2013-10-20 · in A Crash Course In Awk