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Amazing post! I’ve been wanting to do the same… Have you found a CLI .csv file editor? One of the points of friction for me is finding how to replace Excel’s functionality past Libreoffice. I’m more curious to see what that workflow can do when one uses no GUI whatsoever.
I've found sc-im to be very useful, but I'm still a little new to it. Visidata is another one that seems to be a lot more powerful than sc-im.
I have used sc-im a few times, I like the simplicity and vim shortcuts.
Thanks for mentioning visidata, I'll install it.
csv-mode on emacs
If you want to mess around with scripting instead of an editor I would recommend Awk- it works great for CSV files and is really powerful. Usually you can use
-F,to separate using commas, but for full CSV support (with potential quoted commas) you need to use something like-vFPAT='[^,]*|"[^"]*"'(which isn't POSIX compliant but works with gawk)VisiData may do what you want.