https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/tags/csvkit/ Recent content in Csvkit on Chatomics Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2018 Ming 'Tommy' Tang Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:18:00 -0800 https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/archive/csvkit-to-manipulate-csv-at-command-line-rio-to-interact-with-r-at-command-line/ Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:18:00 -0800 https://divingintogeneticsandgenomics.com/archive/csvkit-to-manipulate-csv-at-command-line-rio-to-interact-with-r-at-command-line/ I came across csvkit long time ago, but I just began to use it and found it is very handy. It is a python utility to manipulate csv files at command line. you can install it by pip: pip install csvkit I played around with the iris data. csvlook gives you a database view of the data by adding grids. $ cat iris.csv | head | csvlook |---------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+--------------| | sepal_length | sepal_width | petal_length | petal_width | species |