prompt

Open a file dialog to either pick a file as input or save output to a file.

Table of Contents | Source: src/cmd/prompt.rs | 🐻‍❄️🖥️

Description ↩

Open a file dialog to pick a file as input or save to an output file.

Pick a single file as input to qsv stats using an INPUT file dialog, pipe into qsv stats using qsv prompt, and browse the stats using qsv lens:

qsv prompt | qsv stats | qsv lens

If you want to save the output of a command to a file using a save file OUTPUT dialog, pipe into qsv prompt using the --fd-output flag:

qsv prompt -m 'Pick a CSV file to summarize' | qsv stats -E | qsv prompt --fd-output

Prompt for a spreadsheet, and export to CSV using a save file dialog:

qsv prompt -m 'Select a spreadsheet to export to CSV' -F xlsx,xls,ods | \
qsv excel - | qsv prompt -m 'Save exported CSV to...' --fd-output

qsv prompt [options]
qsv prompt --help

Option	Type	Description	Default
`‑m,` `‑‑msg`	string	The prompt message to display in the file dialog title. When not using --fd-output, the default is "Select a File". When using --fd-output, the default is "Save File As".
`‑F,` `‑‑filters`	string	The filter to use for the INPUT file dialog. Set to "None" to disable filters. Filters are comma-delimited file extensions. Defaults to csv,tsv,tab,ssv,xls,xlsx,xlsm,xlsb,ods. If the polars feature is enabled, it adds avro,arrow,ipc,parquet, json,jsonl,ndjson & gz,zst,zlib compressed files to the filter.
`‑d,` `‑‑workdir`	string	The directory to start the file dialog in.	`.`
`‑f,` `‑‑fd‑output`	flag	Write output to a file by using a save file dialog. Used when piping into qsv prompt. Mutually exclusive with --output.
`‑‑save‑fname`	string	The filename to save the output as when using --fd-output.	`output.csv`
`‑‑base‑delay‑ms`	string	The base delay in milliseconds to use when opening INPUT dialog. This is to ensure that the INPUT dialog is shown before/over the OUTPUT dialog when using the prompt command is used in both INPUT and OUTPUT modes in a single pipeline.	`200`

Option	Type	Description
`‑h,` `‑‑help`	flag	Display this message
`‑o,` `‑‑output`	string	Write output to without showing a save dialog. Mutually exclusive with --fd-output.
`‑q,` `‑‑quiet`	flag	Do not print --fd-output message to stderr.

Source: src/cmd/prompt.rs | Table of Contents | README