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0.3.0 | Jun 23, 2021 |
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elk
elk - a powerful cat alternative written in rust
elk is a replacement for the 'cat' command
elks features include
- Print line numbers
- Print $ at EOL
- Print statistics (count of lines, characters and uni-characters, size of file) at the end of the file
- Print a specified range of lines
Usage
elk [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <path>
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-n, --line_numbers Print line numbers
-q, --quiet Do not print the file contents
-e, --show-ends Print $ at EOL
-s, --statistics Print statistics (count of lines, characters and uni-characters, actual size of file) at the end of the file
--size print apparent sizes, rather than disk usage
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-l, --lines <n:m> Print a specified range of lines [default: :]
ARGS:
<path> Give me a file
Installation
cargo install elk
Manual installation
install rustc and cargo
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/macmoritz/elk.git
cd /tmp/elk
cargo build --release
cd target/release
./elk
To install elk locally
cd /tmp/elk
cargo install --path .
and add this line to your .bashrc or .zshrc
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.cargo/bin
Using elk instead of cat
in .zshrc or .bashrc
alias cat='elk'
Third-Party software
Thanks to all developers
https://github.com/TeXitoi/structopt
https://github.com/mistodon/config_struct
https://github.com/serde-rs/serde
https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml
https://github.com/eminence/terminal-size
https://github.com/freaky/rust-filesize
https://github.com/mackwic/colored
Dependencies
~3–14MB
~125K SLoC