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Life is to short to use dated CLI tools that suck. Try these instead

• xdfgh1112 5y ago
  Some of these are great (htop) but I don't understand the purpose of cat with syntax highlighting. It just seems wrong to me.
  • iamevn 5y ago
    agreed, I'd be more interested in syntax highlighting in my pager than in cat.
    • gregopet 5y ago
      bat is actually more pager than cat, it automatically switches to pager mode when its input exceeds a certain size.
• nsonha 5y ago
  life is too short to waste time chasing next colorful toys that you'll not notice after a week.
  • stonekyx 5y ago
    Definitely. I actually installed `bat` a few years ago and then forgot about it immediately. `diff-so-fancy` was pretty nice, but then I started using Emacs and then Magit ruled 'em all... `htop` is still great to have though.
• nsonha 5y ago
  If I want to more influencers' bait content I just browse twitter directly
• _dujt 5y ago
  Aren’t they completely missing the point? “Dated” unix cli tools were designed to do their job well and hand off any further needs to other tools. Want syntax highlighting and line numbers with cat? Pipe it into a text editor or something.