When you work with delimited data (CSV, TSV etc...) it can be a pain to just see the data in a nice way, for example, this data:
> cat people-example.csv.txt
First Name,Last Name,Country,age
"Bob","Smith","United States",24
"Alice","Williams","Canada",23
"Malcolm","Jone","England",22
"Felix","Brown","USA",23
"Alex","Cooper","Poland",23
"Tod","Campbell","United States",22
"Derek","Ward","Switzerland",25
First Name,Last Name,Country,age
"Bob","Smith","United States",24
"Alice","Williams","Canada",23
"Malcolm","Jone","England",22
"Felix","Brown","USA",23
"Alex","Cooper","Poland",23
"Tod","Campbell","United States",22
"Derek","Ward","Switzerland",25
With Unix like OSs, you can use the column command to format the layout; for example:
> column -t -s',' people-example.csv.txt
First Name Last Name Country age
"Bob" "Smith" "United States" 24
"Alice" "Williams" "Canada" 23
"Malcolm" "Jone" "England" 22
"Felix" "Brown" "USA" 23
"Alex" "Cooper" "Poland" 23
"Tod" "Campbell" "United States" 22
"Derek" "Ward" "Switzerland" 25
First Name Last Name Country age
"Bob" "Smith" "United States" 24
"Alice" "Williams" "Canada" 23
"Malcolm" "Jone" "England" 22
"Felix" "Brown" "USA" 23
"Alex" "Cooper" "Poland" 23
"Tod" "Campbell" "United States" 22
"Derek" "Ward" "Switzerland" 25
With Windows, you can use Import-CSV and Format-Table in PowerShell:
> Import-Csv .\people-example.csv.txt | Format-Table
First Name Last Name Country age
---------- --------- ------- ---
Bob Smith United States 24
Alice Williams Canada 23
Malcolm Jone England 22
Felix Brown USA 23
Alex Cooper Poland 23
Tod Campbell United States 22
Derek Ward Switzerland 25
First Name Last Name Country age
---------- --------- ------- ---
Bob Smith United States 24
Alice Williams Canada 23
Malcolm Jone England 22
Felix Brown USA 23
Alex Cooper Poland 23
Tod Campbell United States 22
Derek Ward Switzerland 25