3,798 stars · MIT, read from /blob/master/LICENSE-MIT on 2026-09-29; it carries TWO copyright lines, "(c) 2015 Andrew Gallant" and "(c) 2026 datHere, Inc.", which is the xsv lineage the README never states · 23.0.1 (2026-09-13), the "Context is King" release, 270 commits since 22.0.1. Code on 2026-09-28. · Track this in Scout
A fast command-line toolkit for sorting, joining, checking and describing CSV files, with around 140 commands.
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- BurntSushi/xsv
10,800 stars, Unlicense and MIT, and archived by its owner on 24 April 2025; its README now recommends qsv or xan in its place, which is the author of the original naming its successors.
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4,500 stars, the other project named in that sentence; it leans towards exploring and drawing data in the terminal, where qsv leans towards processing pipelines.
Track this in Scout - johnkerl/miller
10,000 stars, BSD-2-Clause; it handles CSV, TSV and line-by-line JSON with a small query language of its own, which is more expressive and slower to learn.
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