tabutils

These are a set of utility scripts for dealing with tab-delimited files. In this setup tab-delimited files can comment lines starting with '#'. They may or may not contain headers.

There are three main scripts:

• tab_filter
• tab_merge
• tab_view

tab_filter

Allows you to view only lines that meet certain criteria.

tab_filter.py file.txt {criteria}

Eg:

1 eq foo

• Column 1 (first column) is equal to 'foo'

1 eq foo 2 lt 3

• Column 1 (first column) is equal to 'foo' and column 2 is less than 3

Valid operations: eq ne lt lte gt gte contains

tab_merge

Merges tab-delimited files together, combining common columns and adding uncommon columns.

tab_view

Displays tab-delimited files, spacing columns appropriately to keep them in-line.