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 simple example first:

ctp -i '[{"name":"Alice","score":95},{"name":"Bob","score":82}]'

You can also pipe JSON data from other commands:

# Pipe data from another command
echo '[{"name":"Alice","role":"Developer"},{"name":"Bob","role":"Designer"}]' | ctp -s

Using Table Options

Customize your tables with colors, styles, and more using the --tableOptions parameter. These options are compatible with console-table-printer library.

# Colorize specific columns
ctp -i '[
  {"name": "John", "status": "active", "score": 95},
  {"name": "Jane", "status": "inactive", "score": 82},
  {"name": "Bob", "status": "active", "score": 78}
]' --tableOptions '{
  "title": "Employee Status",
  "columns": [
    {"name": "status", "color": "green", "alignment": "right"},
    {"name": "score", "color": "yellow"}
  ]
}'

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

1.2.5 (2025-06-11)

Bug Fixes

• Update console-table-printer@2.14.3 (#361) (1725473)