# 使用 Homebrew, Nix 安装 tidy-viewer

查看 tidy-viewer 的安装路径、可执行文件、元数据以及面向 AI 代理工作流的安全说明。

## 安装

```sh
sudo av install brew:tidy-viewer
```

其他安装命令:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install tidy-viewer
```

  证据: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#tidy-viewer
```

  证据: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ti/tidy-viewer/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## 软件包事实

- **软件包键:** brew:tidy-viewer
- **软件包管理器:** Homebrew
- **版本:** 1.8.93
- **来源摘要:** CLI csv pretty printer
- **主页:** <https://github.com/alexhallam/tv>
- **仓库:** <https://github.com/alexhallam/tv>
- **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 可执行文件

- tidy-viewer (别名)

## 安装行为

- Bottle: 不可用

## 版本和新鲜度

- 页面生成时间: 2026-08-03
- 管理器版本: 1.8.93
## 项目历史与用法

Tidy Viewer, commonly invoked as tv or tidy-viewer, is a Rust command-line pretty printer for tabular data. Its project README describes it as a cross-platform data pretty printer for CSV, TSV, PSV, and Parquet files, with streaming support for large datasets.

### 项目历史

The public GitHub repository was created in April 2021. The README presents the project as a terminal adaptation of ideas from R's pillar/tibble formatting, emphasizing significant-digit display, column styling, missing-value coloring, and width-aware truncation for data tables.

The project grew from a CSV pretty-printer into a small data-viewing workspace: the README now documents a Cargo workspace with tidy-viewer-core, tidy-viewer-cli, and tidy-viewer-py, and it highlights support beyond CSV/TSV into Parquet, Feather, and IPC-oriented data workflows.

### 采用历史

Official installation instructions list Cargo, Debian packages, AUR, Snap, Homebrew, and prebuilt release binaries for macOS, ARM, Windows, and source builds. That package spread is the clearest source-backed sign that the tool moved beyond a single-language Rust crate into the usual CLI distribution channels.

The repository metadata also shows the project positioned with tags such as cli, csv, data-science, dataframe, terminal, and pretty-printer, matching its adoption by users who want a fast terminal preview before reaching for heavier dataframe or spreadsheet tools.

### 使用方式

Tidy Viewer is used as a terminal inspection step for delimited and columnar data: examples in the README pipe CSV files into tv, pass files as arguments, and combine color output with pagers such as less -R or bat.

For package-manager users, its appeal is that it turns common shell workflows around CSV or Parquet files into a readable table without starting Python, R, a database shell, or a spreadsheet application.

### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心

In the package-nerd niche, Tidy Viewer belongs to the family of focused Rust CLIs that make Unix pipelines friendlier for data work. It is interesting less as an ecosystem-defining project and more as a practical bridge between classic text streams and dataframe-style terminal presentation.

Its Homebrew formula matters because macOS users can install the same tiny table viewer they might otherwise install via Cargo, keeping shell aliases and data-preview scripts portable across package managers.

### 时间线

- 2021: GitHub repository created for alexhallam/tv.
- 2021-2026: Official README documents distribution through Cargo, Debian, AUR, Snap, Homebrew, and release binaries.
- 2020s: README documents expansion from CSV-oriented viewing to Parquet, Feather, IPC, streaming, and Python bindings.

### Related projects

- The README names R's pillar project as formatting inspiration.
- The README positions tv beside command-line data manipulation tools and pagers rather than as a replacement for full dataframe systems.

### 来源

- <https://api.github.com/repos/alexhallam/tv - GitHub repository metadata for creation date, language, topics, and repository status.>
- <https://github.com/alexhallam/tv#readme - official README for purpose, features, installation channels, examples, architecture, and inspiration.>


## 安全说明

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- **Geiger 风险:** 绿色 / 低
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## 其他软件包管理器记录

- Nix - tidy-viewer: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ti/tidy-viewer/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/tidy-viewer.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/tidy-viewer.yml)


## 来源

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph