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From my experience, --output is a minority in my workflow. Which tools do you use need --output?
Coincidentally, I went looking for some the other day and there were very few. Everything that uses --output for this purpose, that I could find, was a compiler.
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any other recommendation?
Along with bat, these are my main ones that I install always: fd, a better find: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd ripgrep (rg) a modern grep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep eza for ls replacement: https://github.com/eza-community/eza duf is a cleaner df: https://github.com/muesli/duf dust for du: https://github.com/bootandy/dust Also fish + starship + yazi + helix, all of which mostly work perfectly with the defa…
I guess it's not worth the entire dependency of nushell if you don't see yourself ever dabbling with it in other ways (you should it's sick).
Also I'd add to your list zoxide
I've aliased cat to bat, cd to zoxide, and ls to nushell ls with zero issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_file
https://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/
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I have 2 mental definitions of "bat" as a term in computing. Only one can be interpreted as a standalone piece of software that has a version number. And this isn't it.
The `--pager=builtin` change is interesting; first time I've heard of minus. > Traditional pagers like more or less weren't made for integrating into other applications. They were meant to be standalone binaries that are executed directly by users. However most applications don't adhere to this and exploit these pagers' functionality by calling them as external programs and passing the data through the standard input…
Do One Thing*†‡ And Do It Well⹋
* Parsing text formats counts as zero things
† UX counts as two things
‡ APIs that do multiple operations that people might want to split, with no individual APIs for the parts, count as doing one thing
⹋ Something that relies on cooperation from every other process on the system but has no way to enforce it counts as done well
The `--pager=builtin` change is interesting; first time I've heard of minus. > Traditional pagers like more or less weren't made for integrating into other applications. They were meant to be standalone binaries that are executed directly by users. However most applications don't adhere to this and exploit these pagers' functionality by calling them as external programs and passing the data through the standard input…
Having to pipe to a pager - to follow the unix philosophy - means: - extra typing each time - the pager receives static output. There is no interactivity... Sure, most pagers can search. But there is no way to have a table with adjustable columns, or toggle word wrap or line numbers etc. I feel that for a tool like bat, it is better to have it built-in and not follow the composable philosophy because it is just so mu…
It can't adjust the columns in a table, but then I don't believe that `bat` can either, and I'm not aware of any similar program that can. (If there is one, please let me know.)
In the case of `bat` (or `man` or other programs that use a pager) it often requires no extra typing either, since `bat` will pipe it's output to `less` by default (or whatever you specify with the `PAGER` environment variable).
The `less` command can be quite a bit more powerful than it initially looks. I'd recommend looking over the man page sometime -- you might be surprised. In fact, looking over the `minus` page, other than being able to be compiled into another program so it doesn't have to be shipped separately on Windows, I'm not sure what it can do that `less` cannot. (If I'm missing some killer feature, please let me know. I'm not trying to bash `minus`, I just don't know what more it offers.)
The `--pager=builtin` change is interesting; first time I've heard of minus. > Traditional pagers like more or less weren't made for integrating into other applications. They were meant to be standalone binaries that are executed directly by users. However most applications don't adhere to this and exploit these pagers' functionality by calling them as external programs and passing the data through the standard input…
The `--pager=builtin` change is interesting; first time I've heard of minus. > Traditional pagers like more or less weren't made for integrating into other applications. They were meant to be standalone binaries that are executed directly by users. However most applications don't adhere to this and exploit these pagers' functionality by calling them as external programs and passing the data through the standard input…
> Do people widely agree with this? That sounds less like 'exploitation' to me and more like 'the way Unix works'. I personally don't. UNIX is made to be composable, and it's composition. more, less, most all consider pipe input as first-class citizens. I'm personally fond of "grep --color=always file.ext | less --raw" to page colored output. > Is that really the best approach? I don't think so. If I was the develope…
When I saw this, I was hoping that [The Bat!]( https://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/ ) had been released as FOSS. This is still pretty cool.
OMG the flashback... I remember using "The Bat!" and Rimart's "Becky! Internet Mail" Exclamation marks seemed to be popular in names back in the day :D
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any other recommendation?
Along with bat, these are my main ones that I install always: fd, a better find: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd ripgrep (rg) a modern grep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep eza for ls replacement: https://github.com/eza-community/eza duf is a cleaner df: https://github.com/muesli/duf dust for du: https://github.com/bootandy/dust Also fish + starship + yazi + helix, all of which mostly work perfectly with the defa…