table for viewers

Signature

> table {flags}

Flags

• --start-number, -n {int}: row number to start viewing from
• --list, -l: list available table modes/themes
• --width, -w {int}: number of terminal columns wide (not output columns)
• --expand, -e: expand the table structure in a light mode
• --expand-deep, -d {int}: an expand limit of recursion which will take place
• --flatten, -: Flatten simple arrays
• --flatten-separator, - {string}: sets a separator when 'flatten' used
• --collapse, -c: expand the table structure in collapse mode. Be aware collapse mode currently doesn't support width control

Input/output types:

Examples

List the files in current directory, with indexes starting from 1.

>ls|table-n1

Render data in table view

> [[ab]; [12] [34]] |table
╭───┬───┬───╮
│# │ a │ b │
├───┼───┼───┤
│0│1│2│
│1│3│4│
╰───┴───┴───╯

Render data in table view (expanded)

> [[ab]; [12] [2 [44]]] |table--expand
╭───┬───┬───────────╮
│# │ a │     b     │
├───┼───┼───────────┤
│0│1│2│
│1│2│╭───┬───╮│
││││0│4││
││││1│4││
│││╰───┴───╯│
╰───┴───┴───────────╯

Render data in table view (collapsed)

> [[ab]; [12] [2 [44]]] |table--collapse
╭───┬───╮
│a│b│
├───┼───┤
│1│2│
├───┼───┤
│2│4│
│├───┤
││4│
╰───┴───╯

Notes

If the table contains a column called 'index', this column is used as the table index instead of the usual continuous index.