csvlens – command-line CSV file viewer

csvlens is a command-line CSV file viewer that works like less, but is designed specifically for tabular data.

It lets you inspect CSV files directly in the terminal, with interactive navigation, searching, filtering, sorting, column selection, and configurable parsing options.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Views CSV files interactively from the command line.
• Supports scrolling by row, column, window, and line number.
• Provides regex-based searching, highlighting, row filtering, and column filtering.
• Offers row sorting, natural ordering, column resizing, and frozen columns.
• Accepts custom delimiters, tab-separated files, files without headers, and piped input.

Website: github.com/YS-L/csvlens
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Developer: Yung Siang Liau
License: MIT License

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