BurntSushi/xsv

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: archived

Adoption not part of the score

10757 stars · 325 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

xsv is a fast, composable command-line toolkit written in Rust for indexing, slicing, analyzing, splitting, and joining CSV files. It offers simple subcommands like stats, join, sort, and search with an emphasis on performance. The project is now unmaintained, with qsv and xan recommended as successors.

Use cases

• slice and index large csv files from the command line
• compute column statistics on a csv
• join two csv files quickly
• split a big csv into chunks
• build frequency tables of csv columns
• filter csv rows with a regex

When to choose

• you need a fast, scriptable csv tool and are fine with an unmaintained project
• you want simple composable unix-style csv commands
• you need constant-time slicing via csv indexing

When to avoid

• you want an actively maintained tool - use qsv or xan instead
• you need a GUI or spreadsheet-like interface
• you work with formats other than csv/tsv

Facets

cli-tool · maturity abandoned

cli csv data-science etl search-engine data-science files cli windows rust cross-platform csv-toolkit data-wrangling unmaintained high-performance command-line csv linux macos

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