Does anyone know of a tool or shell script for viewing tab-delimited
files?
I'd like to be able to view tab-delimited files with the columns
aligned. I wrote a one-line perl script for this and put it into an
alias:
alias cat.tab='perl -lane '\''@F=split("\t", $_,-1) ; $foo="| %15.40s
"x($#F +1) . "|\n"; printf($foo, @F)'\'' '
which allows me to do something like this:
ls -la | tr -s ' ' '\t' | cat.tab | less -S# 10
Although it mostly works, I was wondering if there was anything a bit
cleaner.
Googling for linux+viewing+tab-delimited+files wasn't very fruitful.
Regards,
- Robert
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