Installation for development of datatools

datatools A set of command line tools for working with CSV, Excel Workbooks, JSON and structured text documents.

Quick install with curl or irm

There is an experimental installer.sh script that can be run with the following command to install latest table release. This may work for macOS, Linux and if you’re using Windows with the Unix subsystem. This would be run from your shell (e.g. Terminal on macOS).

curl https://caltechlibrary.github.io/datatools/installer.sh | sh

This will install the programs included in datatools in your $HOME/bin directory.

If you are running Windows 10 or 11 use the Powershell command below.

irm https://caltechlibrary.github.io/datatools/installer.ps1 | iex

If your are running macOS or Windows

You may get security warnings if you are using macOS or Windows. See the notes for the specific operating system you’re using to fix issues.

• INSTALL_NOTES_macOS.md
• INSTALL_NOTES_Windows.md

Installing from source

Required software

• Golang >= 1.23.5
• Pandoc >= 3.1

Steps

1. git clone https://github.com/caltechlibrary/datatools
2. Change directory into the datatools directory
3. Make to build, test and install

git clone https://github.com/caltechlibrary/datatools
cd datatools
make
make test
make install