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If have to use a dedicated tabular data editing program, I may as well use a spreadsheet application. What do the options you propose do better than libreoffice
by mort96 2y ago
If have to use a dedicated tabular data editing program, I may as well use a spreadsheet application. What do the options you propose do better than libreoffice calc?
- bee_rider 2y agocolumn -t | less -S is pretty nice because you can inspect a file or dataset on a server (no X) before downloading, to see if you even want to bother. Or you can pass it along through a series of pipes to just get the rows you want.
- mort96 2y agoWhat part of "the value of CSV is to have something that can be easily viewed and modified in any text editor" do you not understand
- bee_rider 2y agoI’m not sure where that quote is from but it is incorrect, CSVs aren’t easily viewed or modified in text editors in general (at least not in any way that takes advantage of their tabular nature). There’s at least a slight chance that tab separated values will look ok in a text editor (although in general, nope).