[walrus]

It depends what I'm doing, but I typically use one of the following (starting with the most frequent):

1. IPython with Pandas if I expect to do any in-depth exploration/manipulation of the data.

2. A short Python script like `python -c 'import csv, sys; r = csv.reader(sys.stdin); ...' <data.csv` if it needs to run on someone else's machine.

3. https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv if I want to quickly munge some data or extract a field.

4. Gnumeric if I want a GUI.

5. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im if I want a TUI. This is closest to what you were asking for.

[dotancohen]

Just a heads-up, if you're interested. Only SC-IM was fit for the non-database-format files I need to work with. But it does not have a search function! So I'm writing an app in Python for browsing spreadsheets: https://github.com/dotancohen/osheet

[dotancohen]

  > 5. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im if I want
  > a TUI. This is closest to what you were asking for.

Thank you! Yes, this seems to be almost perfect. I cannot believe that there is no "arbitrary string search" feature, but I can grep in another terminal window at least.

Thank you.