davidpalves / csviz

CSViz - Read and visualize CSV files directly from your terminal!

CSViz

Read and inspect CSVs directly from you terminal!

Installation

Using go install

If you have a Go environment ready to go, it's as easy as:

go install https://github.com/davidpalves/csviz

Building from source

Since this tool is written in Go you need to install the Go language/compiler/etc. Full details of installation and set up can be found on the Go language website.

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/davidpalves/csviz.git

Once installed Go and cloned this repo, you have two options:

Compiling

CSViz has external dependencies, and so they need to be pulled in first:

go get && go build

This will create a csviz binary for you. If you want to install it in the $GOPATH/bin folder you can run:

go install

Usage

You can see the available flags of csviz using the following command:

./csviz

or

./csviz --help

The following output will be given:

Reads CSV directly from terminal

Usage:
  csviz [filepath] [flags]

Flags:
  -f, --filepath string   Path to the CSV file to be read
  -h, --help              help for csviz

Demo

Simple CSV

csviz -f examples/example.csv

Output:

CSV with many columns

Output: