Catalist
Reads the data, not the comments. It's like cat(1), but for lists. Hah.
Catalist is designed to be a small and fast program to only read the content of a list, not the information intended to keep it organised.
Installation
Catalist can be installed through cargo. This will build it from source.
$ cargo install catalist
Usage
Catalist can read from files or from stdin. If no files are given, it will default to reading from stdin.
The contents of example.list
:
$ cat example.list
# Metavariables are useful for programming!
Foo
Bar
Baz
# These ones are barely used
Qux Quux
Quuz
Catalist ignores empty lines and comments. Lines containing whitespace are automatically quoted.
$ catalist example.list
Foo
Bar
Baz
"Qux Quux"
Quuz
Quotes
The quote logic can be changed by providing the --quotes <logic>
option. The option takes one of auto
, always
, or never
. If the option is omitted, catalist defaults to auto
.
$ catalist --quotes always example.list
"Foo"
"Bar"
"Baz"
"Qux Quux"
"Quuz"
Input
Catalist will read from stdin if the file name is a dash (-
) or there are no files given.
$ cat example.list | catalist --quotes never
Foo
Bar
Baz
Qux Quux
Quuz
Comments
A comment is a hash (#
) either preceeded by whitespace or at the start of a line. Everything else is treated as content.
$ cat comments.list
# This is a comment
Example # comment
This is# not a comment
$ catalist comments.list
Example
"This is# not a comment"
License
This project is licensed under the MIT license.