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
• 🗂️ Multi-table functionality
• 📊 Supports for CSV, Parquet, JSON, JSONL, Arrow, and FWF
• 📝 Scripting support

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

Key Combination	Functionality
v	Switch view
k or Arrow Up	Move up in the table or scroll up in sheet view
j or Arrow Down	Move down in the table or scroll down in sheet view
h or Arrow Left	Move to the previous item in sheet view
l or Arrow Right	Move to the next item in sheet view
Page Up or Ctrl+b	Move one page up
Page Down or Ctrl+f	Move one page down
H	Select previous tab
L	Select next tab
Ctrl+u	Move up half a page
Ctrl+d	Move down half a page
Home or g	Move to the first row
End or G	Move to the last row
R	Select a random row
Ctrl+r	Reset the data frame
q	Close current tab
:	Command mode

Commands

Command	Example	Description
:Q or :query	:Q SELECT * FROM df	Query the data in Structured Query Language(SQL). The table name is the file name without extension
:S or :select	:S price, area, bedrooms, parking	Query current data frame for columns/functions
:F or :filter	:F price < 20000 AND bedrooms > 4	Filter current data frame, keeping rows were the condition(s) match
:O or :order	:O area	Sort current data frame by column(s)
:tabn	:tabn SELECT * FORM user WHERE balance > 1000	Create a new tab with the given query
:q or :quit	:q	Return to table from sheet view otherwise quit
:schema	:schema	Show loaded data frame(s) alongside their path(s)
:reset	:reset	Reset the table to the original data frame
:help	:help	Show help menu

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.