On Sep 16, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Sami Kerola <kerol...@iki.fi> wrote: > On 16 September 2013 15:43, Aaron Davies <adavie...@me.com> wrote: > >> Are there any tools for formatting character-delimited, columnar files (csv, >> tab-separated, etc.) for easy viewing? I'm looking for something that will >> work out the proper width for each column and use that to output the file in >> space-padded, fixed-width format. > > A command from util-linux package might suitable for purpose you are after. > > column -s, -t example.csv
That's perfect, thanks much! It reminds me of "discovering" "paste -s" several months ago; I wonder what other useful functionality is hiding in common tools....
