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CLI Table Converter Guide

Turn aligned terminal output such as docker ps or df into a Markdown table, CSV or TSV.

Terminal commands often print aligned columns, but pasting them into a document loses the table. CLI Table Converter splits lines into cells and rewrites them as Markdown, CSV (comma-separated), or TSV (tab-separated) text.

Convert a tiny terminal table

Replace Paste command output with:

NAME  STATUS
api   ready
web   pending

Leave How the columns are separated on Detect automatically, Output on Markdown table, and First row is the header checked. The output should include | NAME | STATUS | as its first line and | api | ready | below the separator. Switch Output to CSV: the first row becomes NAME,STATUS. Copy uses whatever output is currently shown.

The automatic detector uses two-or-more spaces for aligned columns when it finds enough of them; otherwise it may split on every space. If a multiword cell gets split incorrectly, select the right separator yourself and review each row. This is a text converter, not a full parser for every command’s format. Redact hostnames, IPs, and tokens before pasting terminal output into a shared document.

Where your input goes

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For more background, read Working With Structured Data.

Questions you might have

Why does the automatic mode choose two spaces?
In aligned terminal output a single space can appear inside a value, while two or more spaces are the gap between columns. Splitting on two spaces keeps names with one space intact, and any-run-of-spaces is available when a column is narrow.
What happens to a pipe in the data?
In a Markdown table a pipe would end the cell, so it is escaped as a backslash followed by the pipe. In CSV and TSV output the usual quoting rules apply instead.
Can I drop the header?
Clear the first-row box and the table is written without one. In Markdown output that means generic column names are used, because the format expects a header line.