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tablizer/cmd/tablizer.go

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package cmd
var manpage = `
NAME
tablizer - Manipulate tabular output of other programs
SYNOPSIS
Usage:
tablizer [regex] [file, ...] [flags]
Flags:
-c, --columns string Only show the speficied columns (separated by ,)
-d, --debug Enable debugging
-h, --help help for tablizer
-n, --no-numbering Disable header numbering
-o, --output string Output mode - one of: orgtbl, markdown, extended, ascii(default)
-X, --extended Enable extended output
-M, --markdown Enable markdown table output
-O, --orgtbl Enable org-mode table output
-s, --separator string Custom field separator
-v, --version Print program version
DESCRIPTION
Many programs generate tabular output. But sometimes you need to
post-process these tables, you may need to remove one or more columns or
you may want to filter for some pattern or you may need the output in
another program and need to parse it somehow. Standard unix tools such
as awk(1), grep(1) or column(1) may help, but sometimes it's a tedious
business.
Let's take the output of the tool kubectl. It contains cells with
withespace and they do not separate columns by TAB characters. This is
not easy to process.
You can use tablizer to do these and more things.
tablizer analyses the header fiels of a table, registers the column
positions of each header field and separates columns by those positions.
Without any options it reads its input from "STDIN", but you can also
specify a file as a parameter. If you want to reduce the output by some
regular expression, just specify it as its first parameters. Hence:
# read from STDIN
kubectl get pods | tablizer
# read a file
tablizer filename
# search for pattern in a file (works like grep)
tablizer regex filename
# search for pattern in STDIN
kubectl get pods | tablizer regex
The output looks like the original one but every header field will have
a numer associated with it, e.g.:
NAME(1) READY(2) STATUS(3) RESTARTS(4) AGE(5)
These numbers denote the column and you can use them to specify which
columns you want to have in your output:
kubectl get pods | tablizer -c1,3
You can specify the numbers in any order but output will always follow
the original order.
The numbering can be suppressed by using the -n option.
Finally the -d option enables debugging output which is mostly usefull
for the developer.
OUTPUT MODES
There might be cases when the tabular output of a program is way too
large for your current terminal but you still need to see every column.
In such cases the -o extended or -X option can be usefull which enables
*extended mode*. In this mode, each row will be printed vertically,
header left, value right, aligned by the field widths. Here's an
example:
kubectl get pods | ./tablizer -o extended
NAME: repldepl-7bcd8d5b64-7zq4l
READY: 1/1
STATUS: Running
RESTARTS: 1 (71m ago)
AGE: 5h28m
You can of course still use a regex to reduce the number of rows
displayed.
The option -o shell can be used if the output has to be processed by the
shell, it prints variable assignments for each cell, one line per row:
kubectl get pods | ./tablizer -o extended ./tablizer -o shell
NAME="repldepl-7bcd8d5b64-7zq4l" READY="1/1" STATUS="Running" RESTARTS="9 (47m ago)" AGE="4d23h"
NAME="repldepl-7bcd8d5b64-m48n8" READY="1/1" STATUS="Running" RESTARTS="9 (47m ago)" AGE="4d23h"
NAME="repldepl-7bcd8d5b64-q2bf4" READY="1/1" STATUS="Running" RESTARTS="9 (47m ago)" AGE="4d23h"
You can use this in an eval loop.
Beside normal ascii mode (the default) and extended mode there are more
output modes available: orgtbl which prints an Emacs org-mode table and
markdown which prints a Markdown table.
BUGS
In order to report a bug, unexpected behavior, feature requests or to
submit a patch, please open an issue on github:
<https://github.com/TLINDEN/tablizer/issues>.
LICENSE
This software is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE version
3.
Copyright (c) 2022 by Thomas von Dein
This software uses the following GO libraries:
repr (https://github.com/alecthomas/repr)
Released under the MIT License, Copyright (c) 2016 Alec Thomas
cobra (https://github.com/spf13/cobra)
Released under the Apache 2.0 license, Copyright 2013-2022 The Cobra
Authors
AUTHORS
Thomas von Dein tom AT vondein DOT org
`