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* tree - print directory structure
* bat - cat, but actually designed for reading files. Syntax highlighting, line numbers, automatic paging.
* rg - better grep
* direnv - local environment variables
There's a few programs I wish were standard on all Unix systems by now: * tree - print directory structure * bat - cat, but actually designed for reading files. Syntax highlighting, line numbers, automatic paging. * rg - better grep * direnv - local environment variables
Never going to happen because it's written in rust. ag (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) on the other hand is written in C.
There's a few programs I wish were standard on all Unix systems by now: * tree - print directory structure * bat - cat, but actually designed for reading files. Syntax highlighting, line numbers, automatic paging. * rg - better grep * direnv - local environment variables
> rg Never going to happen because it's written in rust. ag ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ) on the other hand is written in C.
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It's a truncated file: $ cat test moo $ cat test $ cat test $
I was wondering about tee for that: $ cat test moo $ cat /dev/null $ cat test moo ...seems to work. Am I just getting lucky with a race condition?
tac | tac
There's a few programs I wish were standard on all Unix systems by now: * tree - print directory structure * bat - cat, but actually designed for reading files. Syntax highlighting, line numbers, automatic paging. * rg - better grep * direnv - local environment variables
> rg Never going to happen because it's written in rust. ag ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ) on the other hand is written in C.
If Rust being added to the Linux kernel[1] isn't far-fetched, I don't think adding a utility in Rust is crazy either.
[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKwvOdmuYc8rW_H4aQG4DsJzho=F+d...
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A Rust program being standard on all UNIX systems.
I'll bite: Why?
There's a few programs I wish were standard on all Unix systems by now: * tree - print directory structure * bat - cat, but actually designed for reading files. Syntax highlighting, line numbers, automatic paging. * rg - better grep * direnv - local environment variables
> rg Never going to happen because it's written in rust. ag ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ) on the other hand is written in C.
There's a few programs I wish were standard on all Unix systems by now: * tree - print directory structure * bat - cat, but actually designed for reading files. Syntax highlighting, line numbers, automatic paging. * rg - better grep * direnv - local environment variables
Why is bat better than less?
I admit to catting files for reading as much as the next guy, but I almost always have the tiniest regret that I didn’t feed it into less and kept my terminal cleaner.
As for RG and AG. other than being faster, how are they better? I thought they were api complainant drop-in replacements so it’s not like they fill in a missing role.