xan
CSV magician for terminal data manipulation
TLDR
Preview a CSV file in the terminal
$ xan view [data.csv]
Search for records in a column$ xan search -s [name] "[pattern]" [data.csv]
Plot a bar chart from frequency data$ xan frequency -s [column] [data.csv] | xan plot bar
SYNOPSIS
xan command [options] [input]
DESCRIPTION
xan is a powerful CSV processor forked from xsv that reads, manipulates, and visualizes CSV data directly in the terminal. It supports filtering, sorting, aggregating, deduplication, parallel processing, and can render scatter plots, histograms, and heatmaps. Handles gigabyte-scale files.
HISTORY
xan was created by Guillaume Plique and medialab Sciences Po and is written in Rust.
