TABULATE(1)

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version 0.10.0 · 4 versions
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💖 TABULATE(1) 💖

okay bestie, so like — this is the manual page for tabulate, and it lives in the User Commands section of the manual. it makes your messy data look cute in a table. literally glow-up energy for plain text. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

tabulate — pretty-print tabulate data. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tabulate [options] [FILE ...]

so you give her some options, maybe some files, and she gives you a table. main character behaviour honestly. ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

ngl this page is short and sweet — but heads up, there's more lore over here:

See also <https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate>.

go read the source, iykyk. 🫶

👑 OPTIONS 👑

here's the full lineup, no skips, no cuts, every single one. 🍓

  • -h, --help — show this message. classic. ask for help and she will provide. 💜
  • -1, --header — use the first row of data as a table header. so your top row becomes the ✨glow-up✨ row instead of just more data. iconic.
  • -o FILE, --output FILE — print table to FILE (default: stdout). don't want it on your screen? send it somewhere else, bestie. 📁
  • -s REGEX, --sep REGEX — use a custom column separator (default: whitespace). tell her exactly how your columns are split up, she'll respect it fr fr.
  • -F FPFMT, --float FPFMT — floating point number format (default: g). for when your decimals need to behave a certain way. no cap.
  • -f FMT, --format FMT — set output table format (default: simple). and ooooh the options, bestie, the options are:
    • plain
    • simple
    • grid
    • fancy_grid
    • pipe
    • orgtbl
    • rst
    • mediawiki
    • html
    • latex
    • latex_booktabs
    • tsv

pick your vibe. fancy_grid is lowkey serving, pipe is for the markdown girlies, html for the web girlies, latex for the academic girlies. everyone eats. 🌈

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

This manual page was written by ChangZhuo Chen <czchen@gmail.com> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). she wrote it, she shared it, we love her for it. 💖

okay and that's a wrap! 🌟 this was tabulate, from the April 2015 era, source and version tabulate — and yeah, she still ate. periodt. 💅✨🎀🦋

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