Tabulate is a command line utility that converts standard input into pretty-printed tables. It is also a Tcl module that does the same with lists of lists. It was inspired by https://github.com/joepvd/table . Tabulate works in Tcl 8.5+ and Jim Tcl.
It is currently developed as part of the Sqawk repository.
Download the latest version: curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dbohdan/sqawk/master/lib/tabulate.tcl > tabulate.tcl
$ ps | jimsh ./tabulate.tcl ┌─────┬─────┬────────┬─────┐ │ PID │ TTY │ TIME │ CMD │ ├─────┼─────┼────────┼─────┤ │20583│pts/3│00:00:01│ zsh │ ├─────┼─────┼────────┼─────┤ │23301│pts/3│00:00:00│ ne │ ├─────┼─────┼────────┼─────┤ │28007│pts/3│00:00:00│ ps │ ├─────┼─────┼────────┼─────┤ │28008│pts/3│00:00:00│jimsh│ └─────┴─────┴────────┴─────┘
% source lib/tabulate.tcl
% ::tabulate::tabulate -data {{Hello World}}
┌─────┬─────┐
│Hello│World│
└─────┴─────┘JM 2015-08-03: I am probably doing something wrong:
% info tclversion
8.6
% info patchlevel
8.6.4
% source tabulate.tcl
% ::tabulate::tabulate -data {{Hello World!}}
wrong # args: should be "dict exists dictionary key ?key ...?"dbohdan 2015-08-03: I cannot reproduce that on my system by just following your transcript. Could you file an issue at https://github.com/dbohdan/sqawk/issues ?
JM 2015-08-03: never mind, I found the error on my side...there were spaces after the "\" line continuations, hence breaking the command. Somehow I got that from the copy-paste from the source.
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See https://github.com/dbohdan/sqawk/blob/master/lib/tabulate.tcl .