ENH Workaround tab-delimited alignment issues

README.rst

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ EMBL utilities
 
 ``docker_wrap.sh`` - a convenience script to start a container that shares the user's home and creates a user to ensure consistent permissions.
 
-``tabview`` and ``csvview`` - quick preview of tab and csv delimited files. Aligns columns based on content. Works fine with streams and large files. Uses xpipe. Limitations of UNIX's ``column -t`` still apply.
+``tabview`` and ``csvview`` - quick preview of tab and csv delimited files. Aligns columns based on content. Works fine with streams and large files. Uses xpipe. ``tabview`` converts tabs to ``¬`` (seldomly used character) to workaround https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/575
 
 ``xpipe`` - like xargs but for splitting large or infinite streams into chunks and execute commands on them.
 

bin/tabview

-#!/usr/bin/env sh
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
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 # Preview tab-delimited files regardless of their size
 #
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 # Licensed under MIT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License)
 ##
 
-xpipe 'column -t -s"	"' -f "$1" | less -S
+xpipe 'column -t -s"¬"' -f <(sed 's/\t/¬/g' "$1") | less -S