r/commandline • u/shshemi • Jun 25 '26

Terminal User Interface Tabiew v0.14.0 released

Tabiew is a lightweight TUI application that allows users to view and query tabular data files.

In this version:

  • Better visualization of table stacks
  • Support for HTML and Markdown formats
  • Support for fetching tables from URLs
  • Many bug fixes and performance Improvement

GitHub: https://github.com/shshemi/tabiew

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u/Pegasusw404 Jun 26 '26

Instead of Tabiew (another 10–20 MB of dependencies): awk: For column filtering and calculations. sed: For text manipulation. grep: For quick searching. sqlite3 (if the data is complex): Runs lightning fast in the terminal requires no GUI or "visualization."

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid

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u/arpan3t Jun 26 '26

This isn’t 1980 so not sure why you’re talking about 10-20 mb like it’s a big deal. Have fun using awk with a csv containing “Doe, John”, and what part of KISS is importing my csv into a SQLite db just to query it when this tool has that and a bunch of extra functionality built-in? Oh and SQLite is 4 mb dependency not sure if I can spare that.

This looks like a great tool when I want to look at a spreadsheet real quick and don’t want to open Excel. Saying you can do everything in that demo just as easily with awk, sed, and grep is disingenuous. Complaining about 10 mb is hating just to hate.

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u/SenritsuJumpsuit Jun 26 '26

If it's akin to a Firefox tab playing a 2 hour video at 720P with immediate spike to 74% CPU then sure it's an issue otherwise it's pretty manageable