I installed batcat a while ago, but don't use it much. alias bat=batcat And using cat to send a single file to a pipe may earn you an UUCA ( https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award) Mauro https://www.maurosouza.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM Kevin Cozens via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM Ron via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
Anyone using `batcat` or `lolcat` as `cat` alternatives?
I use cat to send the output of a file to another program via a pipe. If I just want to quickly read something I use less.
-- Cheers!
Kevin.
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