shenwei356/csvtk

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

csvtk is a cross-platform command-line toolkit written in Go for manipulating CSV/TSV tabular data. It provides many subcommands for filtering, selecting, joining, and transforming tables, supporting gzipped and other compressed input and Unix pipes.

Use cases

• manipulate csv files from the command line
• select columns by name in a tsv file
• filter and join csv tables in a shell pipeline
• replace excel click-work with automatable csv commands
• inspect and summarize large csv/tsv datasets quickly
• process gzipped csv files without decompressing
• clean up malformed quoted csv files

When to choose

• you need fast, dependency-free CSV/TSV manipulation in shell scripts or pipelines
• you want column selection by name without writing Python/R scripts
• you work with compressed or streamed tabular data on Linux, macOS, or Windows

When to avoid

• you need heavy spreadsheet-style GUI editing or pivot tables
• your data is not tabular (e.g., JSON, XML, or binary formats)
• you need complex statistical analysis better suited to pandas or R

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cli csv parser developer-tools data-science data-science bioinformatics files developer-tools windows cross-platform cli go csv tsv tabular-data data-wrangling unix-pipes single-binary bioinformatics command-line linux macos

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