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Re:Life is to short to use dated CLI tools that suck. Try th... by nsonha on Saturday January 08, 2022 @07:19AM (#29850986)
If I want to more influencers' bait content I just browse twitter directly
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Re:Life is to short to use dated CLI tools that suck. Try th... by xdfgh1112 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @03:52AM (#29849897)
Some of these are great (htop) but I don't understand the purpose of cat with syntax highlighting. It just seems wrong to me.
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Re:Life is to short to use dated CLI tools that suck. Try th... by iamevn on Saturday January 08, 2022 @05:43AM (#29850416)
agreed, I'd be more interested in syntax highlighting in my pager than in cat.
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Re:Life is to short to use dated CLI tools that suck. Try th... by gregopet on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:20AM (#29851397)
bat is actually more pager than cat, it automatically switches to pager mode when its input exceeds a certain size.
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Re:Life is to short to use dated CLI tools that suck. Try th... by ecf on Sunday January 09, 2022 @11:50AM (#29864944)
Aren’t they completely missing the point?

“Dated” unix cli tools were designed to do their job well and hand off any further needs to other tools.

Want syntax highlighting and line numbers with cat? Pipe it into a text editor or something.

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Re:Life is to short to use dated CLI tools that suck. Try th... by nsonha on Saturday January 08, 2022 @07:18AM (#29850970)
life is too short to waste time chasing next colorful toys that you'll not notice after a week.
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Re:Life is to short to use dated CLI tools that suck. Try th... by stonekyx on Saturday January 08, 2022 @07:26AM (#29851025)
Definitely. I actually installed `bat` a few years ago and then forgot about it immediately. `diff-so-fancy` was pretty nice, but then I started using Emacs and then Magit ruled 'em all... `htop` is still great to have though.
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