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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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