what is tabview?

• view a CSV file in a spreadsheet-like display in textmode (ncurses).
• see https://github.com/jahrome/tabview
• there is also a more recent fork of it - have to look for it

why a docker container?

• docker is a fast way of starting tabview temporarly (with --rm)
• a peco-based fileselection dialog allows to select a file within $PWD

How to build

• (only needed if you want to build your own image)
• git clone https://github.com/TimoGo/docker-tabview.git
• docker build -t .
• at least Debian 9 (stretch) is required because of peco

RUN

you need a csv-file eg demo.csv:

docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/data  tghode/docker-tabview:latest demo.csv

Note that the contents of the current directory will be mapped into the container as /data

Alias

You can even hide al the gory details of docker:

alias tabview='docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/data tghode/docker-tabview'

Using the container:

$ tabview demo.csv