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5recommend
0warn against
Jan 18, 2026first mention
Apr 29, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“It's the best tool there is for reading and analyzing csv files”
“The `xan` command line tool is therefore able to use it to perform single-pass map-reduce parallelization over CSV files”
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“It's retired in favor of qsv and xan”
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> It's the best tool there is for reading and analyzing csv files It does not appear to support the file types I regularly work with: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/medical-device-reporting-mdr-how-report-medical-device-problems/mdr-data-files These files have a field delimiter of '|' with a line delimiter of '\r\n', as individual fields also contain '\n' characters. I prefer visidata as the program stays runnin
“It's the best tool there is for reading and analyzing csv files”
“The `xan` command line tool is therefore able to use it to perform single-pass map-reduce parallelization over CSV files”
“xan, the CSV magician”
“It's retired in favor of qsv and xan”