feat: cli: Add tsv output (#869) #2108
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For test data lines beginning with <, maybe shelltestrunner's format 2 helps (triple |
All commands that suport csv output now also support tsv output. The data is identical, but the fields are separated by tab characters and there is no quoting or escaping. Tab, carriage return, and newline characters in data are converted to spaces (this should rarely if ever happen in practice).
simonmichael
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Nov 7, 2023
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Looks good to me. I appreciate that you added the new output type to all commands. Thank you! |
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Message ID: ***@***.***>Thanks! And thanks for the amazing tool. Migrating to hledger has been one of the most satisfying bits of digital homesteading I’ve done.
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I've been writing some add-on scripts to analyze my hledger data and frequently wishing I had tsv output. csv is just complicated enough to require a bit of parsing--usually through some external dependency--whereas tsv is trivial enough to decode directly in essentially any environment. (It's also the native and strongly preferred format of visidata.)
I see there's an old issue requesting this feature (#869). There also seems to be an old pull request that circled around it a bit, but never turned into anything.
I believe the implementation is in fact pretty trivial. The data is identical to csv output, so it should just be a matter of writing
printTSVbased onprintCSVand hooking it up.A few notes:
<. Perhaps someone familiar withshelltestcould suggest a workaround, if desired.