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Re: CLI: Improved

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Post by another-cuppa » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 6:33 PM UTC

mlevental wrote: post #5

radarsat1 wrote: post #3

> The bat command also allows me to search during output (only if the output is longer than the screen height) using the / key binding (similarly to less searching). You can do this with `less -F `. It will show the file on the screen like `cat` unless it is longer than one screen, then it will go into paging mode and allow search with `/`. Side note, how do you make his nice-looking prompt?

you don't need the -F do you? unless I'm missing something you're saying about less

That makes it exit immediately like cat.

Re: CLI: Improved

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Post by mlevental » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 6:34 PM UTC

another-cuppa wrote: post #11

mlevental wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you don't need the -F do you? unless I'm missing something you're saying about less

That makes it exit immediately like cat.

oh. but why would you want to? even for a 1 page file i still want to / most of the time

Re: CLI: Improved

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Post by another-cuppa » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 6:35 PM UTC

"bat" is not a better version of cat, it's a completely different tool. cat is short for concatenate. If you want to view a file use less, and if you want syntax highlighting etc. then use view (comes with vim).

Re: CLI: Improved

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Post by patja » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 6:35 PM UTC

"I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line."

IIS has significant market share. I'll bet most web developers who deploy on it get away without having to use the command line interface very often if at all.

https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2018/08/24/august-2018-we...

Re: CLI: Improved

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Post by dguo » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 6:36 PM UTC

I keep a running list in my dotfiles repo[1] of the Unix replacements that I use. One downside is that I don't know the standard tools as well as I would like because I almost never use them.

[1]: https://github.com/dguo/dotfiles#replacements-for-unix-comma...

Re: CLI: Improved

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 6:36 PM UTC

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Re: CLI: Improved

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Post by mlevental » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 6:39 PM UTC

bat is cool but is there a way to get not to dump everything into my terminal and just page just like less? i wonder if there's a `bless` ?

Re: CLI: Improved

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Post by dguo » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 6:40 PM UTC

another-cuppa wrote: post #13

"bat" is not a better version of cat, it's a completely different tool. cat is short for concatenate. If you want to view a file use less, and if you want syntax highlighting etc. then use view (comes with vim).

bat can still be used to concatenate files: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#file-concatenation

"Whenever bat detects a non-interactive terminal, it will fall back to printing the plain file contents."

Re: CLI: Improved

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Post by craftyguy » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 6:50 PM UTC

mlevental wrote: post #17

bat is cool but is there a way to get not to dump everything into my terminal and just page just like less? i wonder if there's a `bless` ?

By default, bat seems to support displaying contents of the file in a pager.

Re: CLI: Improved

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Post by geoalchimista » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 6:51 PM UTC

another-cuppa wrote: post #13

"bat" is not a better version of cat, it's a completely different tool. cat is short for concatenate. If you want to view a file use less, and if you want syntax highlighting etc. then use view (comes with vim).

> if you want syntax highlighting etc. then use view

I'd like to recommend pygmentize also for syntax highlighting. Works like cat and supports a lot of languages. But since pygmentize is written in Python, it may not run as fast as bat. (I haven't tried bat though, because pygmentize is fast enough for my daily use cases.)