✂️ cutter

Cutter is a simple cli program for cutting large text/csv files into chunks that are digestible by Excel.

How it Works

Excel can only open files that have approximately a million rows or less. Files bigger than that fail to open.

Cutter solves this problem by:

• Splitting a large text file into numbered chunks, each a million rows or less
• Preserving the column headers on each chunk

Why not just use Split?

What makes cutter different from the POSIX split command?

• It automatically defaults to Excel friendly defaults
• No need to futz around with command line arguments
• File chunks are automatically renamed to the original file name, followed by _part1, _part2, instead of xaa, xbb and etc..
• Drag and drop works in windows

How to use it?

1. Save cutter.exe into a folder
2. Drag and drop the file you want to split onto cutter.exe

The split chunks will be safely deposited in the folder from which you dragged over the file.

CLI Usage

If you want to use the terminal:

Usage: cutter.exe [options] <filename>
    Options:
      -v, --version    Print version information and exit
      -h, --help       Print this message and exit

How do I get it?

1. Go to Latest Release
2. Under Assets, locate the file ending in _Windows_x86_64.zip
3. Download it

4. Double click on the downloaded file
5. Drag cutter.exe file to a desired folder (eg. Desktop)

Now you can drag and drop files onto cutter.exe to split them.

Installation

To install cutter on your system you can use one of the following methods:

Multi-Platform:

You can install cutter using go install:

go install github.com/maciakl/cutter@latest

macOS and Linux:

Use grab:

grab maciakl/cutter

Windows:

Use scoop:

scoop add maciak https://github.com/maciakl/bucket
scoop update
scoop install cutter