realign-text-table

Name

realign-text-table - redraws malformed ASCII-drawn tables

Synopsis

realign-text-table [--markdown] [FILE]

Description

realign-text-table reads stdin or argument file. stdin should contain ASCII tables. realign-text-table will print on stdout the same table but properly aligned.

If --markdown is given, will output Gitlab/Github-flavored Markdown tables.

Example

When given this table as stdin:

+-----+-----+
| foo | bar |
+-----+-----+
| a long cell | short |
| x | longer cell ? |
+--+--+

it will output a well-formed table:

+-------------+---------------+
|     foo     |      bar      |
+-------------+---------------+
| a long cell |     short     |
|      x      | longer cell ? |
+-------------+---------------+

Dependencies

realign-text-table uses Python and PrettyTable.

License

This is free software, distributed under the WTFPL 2.0.