table-printer-cli

table-printer-cli

📟🍭Printing Pretty Tables on your terminal

Synopsis

Printing Simple Table on your bash terminal. Its useful when you want to present some tables on console. There is a library that you can use similar way in nodejs/typescript Projects. console-table-printer

Installation

Using npm

npm install --global table-printer-cli

Using yarn

yarn global add table-printer-cli

Basic Example

Try this on your terminal.

ctp -i '[{ "id":3, "text":"like" }, {"id":4, "text":"tea"}]'

Output:

You can also pipe the input from stdin:

echo '[{ "id":3, "text":"like" }, {"id":4, "text":"tea"}]' | ctp -s

Using Table Options

You can customize the table output using the --tableOptions parameter. This accepts the same options as the console-table-printer library.

Example with table options:

# Color the entire table red
ctp -i '[{"id":1,"name":"John"},{"id":2,"name":"Jane"}]' --tableOptions '{"style": {"headerColor": "red", "color": "red"}}'

# Use custom column styles
ctp -i '[{"id":1,"status":"active"},{"id":2,"status":"inactive"}]' --tableOptions '{"columns": [{"name": "status", "color": "green"}]}'

# Change table title
ctp -i '[{"id":1,"name":"John"}]' --tableOptions '{"title": "Users List"}'

Detailed usage

Usage: ctp [options]

Options:
  -i, --input <value>         input string
  -s, --stdin                 read input from stdin
  -t, --tableOptions <value>  table options in JSON format
  -h, --help                  display help for command

License

MIT

Changelog

1.2.0 (2025-05-30)

Features

• Adding table options (#345) (b67733b)