scan file

metacrafter scan file <filename> [options]

Detects format from the extension (including compression) and classifies each column. See Formats and File scanning.

File-specific options

Flag	Meaning
--delimiter	CSV/TSV delimiter (default: auto-detected)
--tagname	XML tag that wraps records
--encoding	Character encoding (default: auto-detected)
--compression	auto, none, or a codec (gz, bz2, zip, …)

Plus the shared scan options. Default --limit is 100 records per field.

Examples

metacrafter scan file somefile.csv --format short

metacrafter scan file data.parquet \
  --format full \
  --output-format json \
  -o parquet_results.json

metacrafter scan file users.csv \
  --fields email,phone,name \
  --confidence 50.0 \
  --contexts pii \
  --format full \
  -o filtered_results.json