I wrote these instructions on how to install and use xsv – a powerful CSV-handling command-line tool, because someone asked how to deal with a data file that was too big to open in Excel or even Notepad. I didn't know how familiar the person was with installing/running downloadable .exe files or with Powershell, so I've tried to include some general instructions that hopefully are useful to even novices.
This mini-guide is not at all meant to be exhaustive as it basically shows just one of xsv's many useful functions. But if you're new to the idea of using command-line tools to do things, hopefully this can be a friendly intro to it.
Here's an example of a CSV that, at 3 million rows, is too big for Excel to open: https://burntsushi.net/stuff/worldcitiespop.csv