VisiData (via) Intriguing tool by Saul Pwanson: VisiData is a command-line "textpunk utility" for browsing and manipulating tabular data. pip3 install visidata
and then vd myfile.csv
(or .json
or .xls
or SQLite or others) and get an interactive terminal UI for quickly searching through the data, conducting frequency analysis of columns, manipulating it and much more besides. Two tips for if you start playing with it: hit gq
to exit, and hit Ctrl+H
to view the help screen.
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