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0.3.0 | Sep 18, 2023 |
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0.2.0 | Aug 31, 2023 |
0.1.8 | Jun 25, 2023 |
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spacer
spacer
is a simple CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops.
If you're the type of person that habitually presses enter a few times in your log tail to know where the last request ended and the new one begins, this tool is for you!
Installation
With Homebrew:
brew install spacer
Direct from Cargo:
cargo install spacer
Usage
By default, spacer
outputs a spacer after 1 second with no output. You can
change this with the --after
flag.
tail -f some.log | spacer --after 5
--after
accepts a number of seconds, and allows floating point numbers for
extra precision.
STDOUT and STDERR
Some commands output most of their information on STDERR, not STDOUT. spacer
only monitors STDOUT, so if you find a situation where spacer
doesn't seem
to be working it could be that the program you're piping from is using STDERR.
To "fix" that, redirect STDERR to STDOUT by using 2>&1
in your command:
my-command 2>&1 | spacer
Dependencies
~12–27MB
~361K SLoC