I need to view (large) CSV files on my Mac. I could use something like OpenOffice, but unfortunately it's pretty big and slow. I'm wondering if there's a Mac equivalent of some of the Windows tools mentioned on this SU question.
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Quick Look the file. There are two methods of doing so.
- Right click the file, in the context menu, select 'Quick Look "file you right-clicked"'.
- Click the file, keyboard shortcut Command-Y.
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1This is cool and all, but you can't even select data to copy/paste. Mar 9, 2018 at 0:48
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And quicklook doesn't align the columns, so it's difficult to visually scan as a table.– scipilotMay 15, 2021 at 3:04
Update 7/24/2019
Commenter @Boris Yakubchik points out there's a new CSV app: Tablecruncher - tablecruncher.com . I have not tested it.
Update 4/13/2017
There's a new desktop app for viewing and analyzing CSV files on macOS: Tad.
Update 9/8/2016
There's a new cross-platform desktop app for viewing CSV files: Comma Chameleon.
Original answer
Open Refine weighs in at 50.6 MB, but I don't think that's the 'weight' you're interested in. Anyway I think it's a good tool for any size dataset. They make it faster by paginating the data.
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@Manu Google no longer maintains Refine, but it's still available as an open source project: openrefine.org Jan 14, 2016 at 11:39
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Not sure how light-weight it is, but I found this with a quick Google search: XTabulator 2
XTabulator is a tabular data file editor for Mac OS X. With XTabulator, you can edit, manipulate, > massage, slice, and dice comma-separated (CSV), tab-separated (TAB), or anything-separated files quickly and easily.
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A note for others: Free version adds a line "Created by XTabulator" in every CSV you edit with it. Jan 14, 2016 at 6:51