detect columns for strings

Attempt to automatically split text into multiple columns.

Signature

> detect columns --skip --no-headers

Parameters

• --skip {int}: number of rows to skip before detecting
• --no-headers (-n): don't detect headers

Examples

Splits string across multiple columns

> 'a b c' | detect columns -n
╭───┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────╮
│ # │ column0 │ column1 │ column2 │
├───┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ 0 │ a       │ b       │ c       │
╰───┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────╯

Splits a multi-line string into columns with headers detected

> $'c1 c2 c3(char nl)a b c' | detect columns