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T.v.Dein 6fccd1287b Feature additions (#11)
* add color table support (using alternating colorization of rows) using new flag `-L`
* add config file support (HCL format) using `~/.config/tablizer/config` or `-f <file>` so the user can customize colors
* removed golang 1.17 support
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=head1 NAME
tablizer - Manipulate tabular output of other programs
=head1 SYNOPSIS
Usage:
tablizer [regex] [file, ...] [flags]
Operational Flags:
-c, --columns string Only show the speficied columns (separated by ,)
-v, --invert-match select non-matching rows
-n, --no-numbering Disable header numbering
-N, --no-color Disable pattern highlighting
-H, --no-headers Disable headers display
-s, --separator string Custom field separator
-k, --sort-by int Sort by column (default: 1)
-z, --fuzzy Use fuzzy seach [experimental]
Output Flags (mutually exclusive):
-X, --extended Enable extended output
-M, --markdown Enable markdown table output
-O, --orgtbl Enable org-mode table output
-S, --shell Enable shell evaluable output
-Y, --yaml Enable yaml output
-C, --csv Enable CSV output
-A, --ascii Default output mode, ascii tabular
-L, --hightlight-lines Use alternating background colors for tables
Sort Mode Flags (mutually exclusive):
-a, --sort-age sort according to age (duration) string
-D, --sort-desc Sort in descending order (default: ascending)
-i, --sort-numeric sort according to string numerical value
-t, --sort-time sort according to time string
Other Flags:
--completion <shell> Generate the autocompletion script for <shell>
-f, --config <file> Configuration file (default: ~/.config/tablizer/config)
-d, --debug Enable debugging
-h, --help help for tablizer
-m, --man Display manual page
-V, --version Print program version
=head1 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 (See L<PATTERNS>) 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 B<tablizer> to do these and more things.
B<tablizer> analyses the header fields 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 C<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 parameter. You
may also use the B<-v> option to exclude all rows which match the
pattern. 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 (see L<COLUMNS>:
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 B<-n> option.
By default tablizer shows a header containing the names of each
column. This can be disabled using the B<-H> option. Be aware that
this only affects tabular output modes. Shell, Extended, Yaml and CSV
output modes always use the column names.
By default, if a B<pattern> has been speficied, matches will be
highlighted. You can disable this behavior with the B<-N> option.
Use the B<-k> option to specify by which column to sort the tabular
data (as in GNU sort(1)). The default sort column is the first one. To
disable sorting at all, supply 0 (Zero) to -k. The default sort order
is ascending. You can change this to descending order using the option
B<-D>. The default sort order is by string, but there are other sort
modes:
=over
=item B<-a --sort-age>
Sorts duration strings like "1d4h32m51s".
=item B<-i --sort-numeric>
Sorts numeric fields.
=item B<-t --sort-time>
Sorts timestamps.
=back
Finally the B<-d> option enables debugging output which is mostly
useful for the developer.
=head2 PATTERNS
You can reduce the rows being displayed by using a regular expression
pattern. The regexp is PCRE compatible, refer to the syntax cheat
sheet here: L<https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Syntax>. If you want
to read a more comprehensive documentation about the topic and have
perl installed you can read it with:
perldoc perlre
Or read it online: L<https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre>.
A note on modifiers: the regexp engine used in tablizer uses another
modifier syntax:
(?MODIFIER)
The most important modifiers are:
C<i> ignore case
C<m> multiline mode
C<s> single line mode
Example for a case insensitive search:
kubectl get pods -A | tablizer "(?i)account"
You can use the experimental fuzzy seach feature by providing the
option B<-z>, in which case the pattern is regarded as a fuzzy search
term, not a regexp.
=head2 COLUMNS
The parameter B<-c> can be used to specify, which columns to
display. By default tablizer numerizes the header names and these
numbers can be used to specify which header to display, see example
above.
However, beside numbers, you can also use regular expressions with
B<-c>, also separated by comma. And you can mix column numbers with
regexps.
Lets take this table:
PID TTY TIME CMD
14001 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
42871 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
42872 pts/0 00:00:00 sed
We want to see only the CMD column and use a regex for this:
ps | tablizer -s '\s+' -c C
CMD(4)
bash
ps
tablizer
sed
where "C" is our regexp which matches CMD.
=head2 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 B<-o extended> or B<-X> option can be
useful which enables I<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 B<-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: B<orgtbl> which prints an Emacs org-mode
table and B<markdown> which prints a Markdown table, B<yaml>, which
prints yaml encoding and CSV mode, which prints a comma separated
value file.
=head2 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
B<tablizer> supports certain environment variables which use can use
to influence program behavior. Commandline flags have always
precedence over environment variables.
=over
=item <T_NO_HEADER_NUMBERING> - disable numbering of header fields, like B<-n>.
=item <T_COLUMNS> - comma separated list of columns to output, like B<-c>
=item <NO_COLORS> - disable colorization of matches, like B<-N>
=back
=head2 COMPLETION
Shell completion for command line options can be enabled by using the
B<--completion> flag. The required parameter is the name of your
shell. Currently supported are: bash, zsh, fish and powershell.
Detailed instructions:
=over
=item Bash:
source <(tablizer --completion bash)
To load completions for each session, execute once:
# Linux:
$ tablizer --completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/tablizer
# macOS:
$ tablizer --completion bash > $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/tablizer
=item Zsh:
If shell completion is not already enabled in your environment,
you will need to enable it. You can execute the following once:
echo "autoload -U compinit; compinit" >> ~/.zshrc
To load completions for each session, execute once:
$ tablizer --completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_tablizer"
You will need to start a new shell for this setup to take effect.
=item fish:
tablizer --completion fish | source
To load completions for each session, execute once:
tablizer --completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/tablizer.fish
=item PowerShell:
tablizer --completion powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression
To load completions for every new session, run:
tablizer --completion powershell > tablizer.ps1
and source this file from your PowerShell profile.
=back
=head1 CONFIGURATION AND COLORS
YOu can put certain configuration values into a configuration file in
HCL format. By default tablizer looks for
C<$HOME/.config/tablizer/config>, but you can provide one using the
parameter C<-f>.
In the configuration the following variables can be defined:
BG = "lightGreen"
FG = "white"
HighlightBG = "lightGreen"
HighlightFG = "white"
NoHighlightBG = "white"
NoHighlightFG = "lightGreen"
HighlightHdrBG = "red"
HighlightHdrFG = "white"
The following color definitions are available:
black, blue, cyan, darkGray, default, green, lightBlue, lightCyan,
lightGreen, lightMagenta, lightRed, lightWhite, lightYellow,
magenta, red, white, yellow
The Variables B<FG> and B<BG> are being used to highlight matches. The
other *FG and *BG variables are for colored table output (enabled with
the C<-L> parameter).
Colorization can be turned off completely either by setting the
parameter C<-N> or the environment variable B<NO_COLOR> to a true value.
=head1 BUGS
In order to report a bug, unexpected behavior, feature requests
or to submit a patch, please open an issue on github:
L<https://github.com/TLINDEN/tablizer/issues>.
=head1 LICENSE
This software is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE version 3.
Copyright (c) 2023 by Thomas von Dein
This software uses the following GO modules:
=over 4
=item repr (https://github.com/alecthomas/repr)
Released under the MIT License, Copyright (c) 2016 Alec Thomas
=item cobra (https://github.com/spf13/cobra)
Released under the Apache 2.0 license, Copyright 2013-2022 The Cobra Authors
=item dateparse (github.com/araddon/dateparse)
Released under the MIT License, Copyright (c) 2015-2017 Aaron Raddon
=item color (github.com/gookit/color)
Released under the MIT License, Copyright (c) 2016 inhere
=item tablewriter (github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter)
Released under the MIT License, Copyright (c) 201 by Oleku Konko
=item yaml (gopkg.in/yaml.v3)
Released under the MIT License, Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Kirill Simonov
=back
=head1 AUTHORS
Thomas von Dein B<tom AT vondein DOT org>
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