xsv Command Examples

A CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust. More information: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv.

• Inspect the headers of a file:

xsv headers {{path/to/file.csv}}

• Count the number of entries:

xsv count {{path/to/file.csv}}

• Get an overview of the shape of entries:

xsv stats {{path/to/file.csv}} | xsv table

• Select a few columns:

xsv select {{column1,column2}} {{path/to/file.csv}}

• Show 10 random entries:

xsv sample {{10}} {{path/to/file.csv}}

• Join a column from one file to another:

xsv join --no-case {{column1}} {{path/to/file1.csv}} {{column2}} {{path/to/file2.csv}} | xsv table