They each have a man page, and there is an html document here
file:///usr/share/doc/csvkit/html/index.html
provided you also install the package csvkit-doc
I suspect gnumeric may not have some of the fancier features. I have never found anything missing, but I dont use spreadsheets a lot.
I mostly want to look at old Excel files and maybe write them to .csv files
Ah thanks, good to know. Iāll give it whirl on your recommendation using your instructions up the topic.
Whatās the purpose behind miller and is it essential to install with csvkit?
Yes, of course.
I never use sudo, always become root, so I tend to forget when writing.
In the early days of Unix (BSD) sudo did not exist⦠the only way was to become root. I never changed to sudo.
Yes, I needed to find one because after doing the install I did csvkit --version and it returned command not found so I doubted whether Iād actually installed it but then doing apt list --installed I found that it was there after all so decided to dig deeper.
Iāll now take some time to explore it a bit more.
That is because csvkit is not a command⦠it is only the package name.
Confusing⦠yes⦠in many cases the command name and the package name are the same⦠but not all.
Mine is the same.
Debian package versions are often behind what you can download from the developers site.
You should stick with the Debian version⦠it has been checked for compatability. The developers version will be bleeding edge. Try it if you like , but be prepared for gliches⦠and virus scan it if you download from anywhere other than Debian.
No, Iām comfortable with the version and usually avoid bleeding edge for my daily driver but thought I would simply mention it in the event that someone else less appreciative of the āstableā label given to Debian encounters it.
Incidentally, as regards the other topic under discussion about Snaps and Flatpaks, Debian ships a āstableā version of FF (ESR) but taking that off and replacing with the Flatpak version (administered by Mozilla themselves anyway) is conventionally regarded as a sound move.