Viewworkbook

view spreadsheet files in a terminal window

SYNOPSIS

viewworkbook <spreadsheet>

DESCRIPTION

Viewworkbook lets you read spreadsheet-files in text-mode, in a terminal window. It reproduces the tables which are contained in a spreadsheet file and lets you navigate through the sheets. The visible part of a sheet is limited laterally and horizontally by the terminal-size but can be scrolled. You can adapt the width of table-columns, to render the table more readable and finally, if you wish, save tables to a text-file. To the author of the program, the utility serves to take a quick glance at spreadsheets that are received via email, in the Mutt mail-client, which is itself a terminal application.

The supported spreadsheet formats are those which are handled by the Ruby-gem "roo" (February 2017):

Options

Other than the path to the spreadsheet file, viewworkbook does currently not interpret any command line arguments.

Hidden (menu-)commands

There is currently only one such command available: The Escape-key will interrupt an unfinished action and refresh the display.

Other Information

Development and source code
Viewworkbook has been written in Ruby. As Ruby is an interpreted programming language, the executable file and all those that it may refer to at one point in time, are themselves the source-files of the current program-version. You can open them in any text-editor to scrutinize the source-code. If you have received the program as a Ruby-gem, you can also decompress a copy of the gem-file with tar -x, then tar -xzf.
Bugs
Negative values are not always displayed, when very long (like 15 ciphers). Enlarging the column-width further does not have an effect.
License
Viewworkbook is distributed under the conditions of the GNU General Public License, version 3.
Author
Viewworkbook has been developed by Michael Uplawski <michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu>

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