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lat
lat | lazy cat - a cat clone with some quality-of-life embellishments
About
lat is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. It's the awkward middle child in-between cat and bat. It was created because the author didn't want to have to configure bat just to get decent file printing, but wanted a little more control than cat offered.
lat does not expect to be used. lat expects to be forgotten and shunted into a corner because it does not belong in the slightest.
Install
lat is not yet at a stable version (v1.0.0), so it is not on any package managers.
git clone https://github.com/secondary-smiles/lat.git
cd lat
make
./build/lat -V
# now add lat to your $PATH/do whatever you want with the binary
Helptext
lat -h
lat | lazy cat - a cat clone with some quality-of-life embellishments
usage: lat [-cltbrpneVh] [file...]
options:
-c toggle color
-l toggle line numbers
-t toggle file info headers
-b set binary mode, -b forces binary and -bb forces NOT binary
-r print everything (headers, line numbers, etc.) to stdout (or equivalent)
-p print file with the pager (uses less)
-n <name> manually set the name of the file shown in the title
-e <program> link extension to lat
-V show program version
-h display this help text
environment:
NO_COLOR, see https://no-color.org/