https://github.com/pdmlab/xltui
Minimal Excel Terminal UI (TUI)
https://github.com/pdmlab/xltui
excel terminal terminal-ui
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Minimal Excel Terminal UI (TUI)
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pdmlab/xltui
- Owner: PDMLab
- License: mit
- Created: 2025-08-27T18:49:34.000Z (5 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-08-28T21:21:22.000Z (5 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-08-29T01:38:29.096Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: excel, terminal, terminal-ui
- Language: C#
- Homepage:
- Size: 357 KB
- Stars: 11
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# xltui - minimal Terminal UI for Excel files
Minimal Excel Terminal UI (TUI) inspired by TUIs like
* [doxx](https://github.com/bgreenwell/doxx)
* [lazysql](https://github.com/jorgerojas26/lazysql)
## Status
This is the very beginning of this little project. Right now it's more of a CLI to explore some ideas and concepts.
What you can do already:
Open a `.xslx` file and render a particular sheet as a table.
Open a `.xlsx` file and render it as a tree.
More options:
```bash
xltui render --file sample.xlsx
xltui render --file sample.xlsx --sheet People --style table
xltui render --file sample.xlsx --sheet People --style tree --group-by Department
xltui render --file sample.xlsx --sheet-index 1 --columns Name,Email,Dept
xltui render --file sample.xlsx --json
xltui render --file sample.xslx --json --columns Name,Email
```
The `--json` option can be useful if you want to process the data e.g. using `jq`:
```bash
# this will export a single column "Amount" and jq will transform the array to an array of strings:
xltui render --file HelloWorld.xlsx --json --columns Amount | jq -c '[ .[] | .[] | to_entries[] | (.value // "") | tostring ]'
```
## Installing
You can download the binaries from the [Releases](https://github.com/PDMLab/xltui/releases) or you can get the `.deb` files from [here](https://github.com/dariogriffo/xltui-debian/releases). Thank you [@dariogriffo](https://github.com/dariogriffo) for creating and hosting the debs!
### Installing / updating on Ubuntu
```bash
json=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/PDMLab/xltui/releases/latest) && tag=$(echo "$json" | grep -m1 '"tag_name":' | cut -d '"' -f4) && echo "Installing xltui $tag..." && url=$(echo "$json" | grep "browser_download_url" | grep "linux-x64.*tar.gz" | cut -d '"' -f4) && [ -n "$url" ] && curl -L "$url" | tar -xz && mkdir -p ~/.local/bin && mv xltui ~/.local/bin/ && echo "xltui $tag installed to ~/.local/bin"
```
### Installling on Debian
Follow the instructions to add the repository on [https://debian.griffo.io](https://debian.griffo.io), then run:
```bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install xltui
```