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I love xsv! I mention in the readme that command line data manipulation tools are great compliments to tv.

https://github.com/alexhallam/tv#tools-to-pair-with-tv

that's exactly the comment I was looking for! xsv is super powerful and I think you might both draw inspiration from one another. I read above that tv reads everything into memory: maybe you can exploit some xsv tricks to avoid that. I feel tv looks great to visualise the outcome at the end of a pipeline, perhaps with xsv. I am no Ruby expert either, but this can become a cool Homebrew binary: people on macOS will use it too!

I will add some Homebrew installation instructions. That is now an open issue. I want this tool to be highly accessible. Again, xsv is the best. I like the idea of small utilities that specialize in a specific task.

From the Unix philosophy:

> Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".

Sure! I completely understand and I am really glad you made this great tool to display the data in such a beautiful format. Maybe there can also be a “—head” flag to display only the top n rows by default, given that the data is read into memory?

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