[GRASS5] viewing map attribute table

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:38:29AM +0200, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Another missing feature in GRASS is the capacity to easily view the map
> attribute table. The current option is 'db.select TableName', but the output
> is not very beautiful and is difficult to browse.
> 
> I think this feature would be useful in connection with the other attribute
> management modules I just sent.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea how to create a nicer and browsable display of an
> attribute table in the tcltk interface ? I guess the easiest would be to pipe
> the db.select results into awk for formatting and then open a new tcltk window
> which displays the results.

Maybe pipe the output of
 v.db.select map
into a tcl table viewer? I have just added a WHERE statement to v.db.select.

Markus