Copy and export

Copy to the clipboard

Your terminal does the copying, so it works over SSH too. It works in Windows Terminal, WezTerm, kitty, iTerm2, Alacritty, Ghostty and Konsole. A few need a setting turned on:

• GNOME Terminal has it switched off by default.
• tmux needs set -g set-clipboard on in your config.

If your terminal doesn’t support it, nothing happens. There’s no error.

Save the view as CSV

Press w. You’ll be asked for a file name, already filled in for you: orders.csv becomes orders.export.csv. Edit it if you like, then press Enter. Esc cancels.

You get what you see. The file has your filters, sorts and grouping applied, not the original data.

Good to know:

• The file is saved in the current directory unless you type a path. ~/exports/ and /tmp/x.csv both work.
• .csv is added if you leave it off.
• Folders that don’t exist yet are created.
• If the file already exists you get a warning first. A failed save never damages the file it was going to replace.
• Empty cells are saved as empty fields, not ∅.
• Saving always goes to your machine. When you’re viewing a file from Azure or S3, the name is suggested locally, and typing an az:// or s3:// destination is refused.