VisiData: Create Sample Dirty Data out of help-commands-all

by frosencrantz 3 years ago

GNU/Linux ◆ xterm-256color ◆ bash 394 views

zCtrlH - Go to help

s - select some rows

“ - duplicate subset

! - sheet is no longer an index col

= longname.split(‘-‘) - make a 2 element list out of longname.

zM – unfurl-col

g’ - freeze table – needed for some of the edits to make later

, - select the 1’s (even rows)

^ cname – fix the column name

ge - global edit to clear out the cells on alternate rows

s d.csv – save the data.

Used in https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/discussions/977

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