Rcsv

✨ Lightweight CSV viewer in Rust with clean modular design, alignment preview, and customizable separators

Features

• Fast CSV reading with optional headers
• Preview rows in a clean table format
• Customizable delimiter
• Limits displayed rows for large files
• Alternating row colors for readability

Demo

Installation

Make sure you have Rust installed. Clone the repository and build the project:

git clone https://github.com/Neotoxic-off/rcsv.git
cd rcsv
cargo build --release

Usage

Basic usage:

cargo run -- path/to/file.csv

Optional arguments:

  -d, --delimiter <DELIMITER>  Set a custom delimiter [default: ,]
  -r, --rows <ROWS>            Set number max of rows to render [default: 30]
  -n, --no-header              Specify if CSV does not have a header row
  -h, --help                   Print help
  -V, --version                Print version

Examples

Display a CSV file with default settings:

cargo run -- ./data/example.csv

Display a CSV using a semicolon as delimiter:

cargo run -- ./data/example.csv -d ";"

Display only the first 50 rows:

cargo run -- ./data/example.csv -r 50

Display a CSV file without a header:

cargo run -- ./data/example.csv --no-header