alexhallam/tv

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2165 stars · 40 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Tidy Viewer (tv) is a cross-platform CLI pretty printer for tabular data that formats CSV, TSV, PSV, Parquet, and Feather files with column styling, colors, and significant-digit formatting. It streams large files memory-efficiently and is configurable via a dotfile.

Use cases

• pretty print a csv file in the terminal
• view large csv files without loading them into memory
• preview parquet files from the command line
• display tabular data with aligned columns and colors
• replace cat for csv files with a readable viewer
• quickly inspect row and column counts of a dataset

When to choose

• you need fast, readable terminal output for CSV/TSV/Parquet data
• you work with large files that need streaming
• you want a lightweight alternative to opening data in a spreadsheet or notebook

When to avoid

• you need interactive scrolling, filtering, or editing of data
• you need a GUI data viewer
• you need to transform or write data, not just display it

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli data-visualization csv parser data-science developer-tools files cli cross-platform windows rust csv-viewer pretty-printer tabular-data parquet terminal tibble command-line linux macos

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