Tabiew

Tabiew is a lightweight TUI application that allows users to view and query tabular data files, such as CSV, Parquet, Arrow, and ...

Features

• ⌨️ Vim-style keybindings
• 🛠️ SQL support
• 📊 Support for CSV, Parquet, JSON, JSONL, Arrow, FWF, and Sqlite
• 🔍 Fuzzy search
• 📝 Scripting support
• 🗂️ Multi-table functionality

Tutorial

For a guide on using Tabiew, including instructions on opening files, navigating tables, performing queries, and using inline queries, kindly visit the tutorial page.

Keybindings️

Commands

Installation

There are various ways to install Tabiew:

Arch Linux

You can install from the official repositories using pacman:

pacman -S tabiew

Debian-based

Download the .deb package from the GitHub releases page and run:

sudo dpkg -i <path_to_package.deb>

RPM-based

Download the .rpm package from the GitHub releases page and run:

sudo rpm -i <path_to_package.rpm>

MacOS

Installing Tabiew using Homebrew from Homebrew core:

 brew update
 brew install tabiew

or tap:

brew install shshemi/tabiew/tabiew

Note: Please be aware that installing Tabiew from the tap involves compiling it from the source, which may take some time to complete.

Cargo

Installing Tabiew from Crates.io:

cargo install tabiew

Build from Source

Ensure you have the rustc version 1.80 (or higher) installed, then:

git clone https://github.com/shshemi/tabiew.git
cd tabiew
cargo build --release
cp ./target/release/tw <system_or_local_bin_path>

Usage

Start Tabiew with tw

tw <path_to_csv(s)>

Options:

• --no-header: Use this option if the CSV file does not contain a header row.
• --ignore-errors: Ignore parsing errors while loading the CSV file.
• --infer-schema: Set the schema inference method. Options are no, fast, full, and safe.
• --quote-char: Set the quote character.
• --separator: Set the separator character.
• --theme: Set the theme.

To open TSV file(s), use:

tw <path_to_tsv(s)> --separator $'\t' --no-header

To open parquet file(s), use:

tw <path_to_parquet(s)> -f parquet

Themes

Monokai (default):

Argonaut:

Nord:

Terminal:

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please fork the repository and submit pull requests with your features and bug fixes.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.