peep

The CLI text viewer tool that works like less command on small pane within the terminal window.

Demos

Pane on Terminal Window

Read from Pipe

Print Line Number

Resize Pane

Incremental Regex Search

Wide Width Character Support

Follow Mode

Highlighting on Follow Mode

Usage

peep [OPTION]... [FILE]

Options

-n, --lines LINES        set height of pane
-t, --tab-width WIDTH    set tab width
-N, --print-line-number  print line numbers
-f, --follow             output appended data as the file grows
-h, --help               show this usage
-v, --version            show version

Commands

Commands on Normal Mode

(num)j         Scroll down
(num)k         Scroll up
(num)d         Scroll down half page
(num)u         Scroll up half page
(num)f         Scroll down a page
(num)b         Scroll up a page
(num)l         Scroll horizontally right
(num)h         Scroll horizontally left
(num)L         Scroll horizontally right half page
(num)H         Scroll horizontally left half page
0              Go to the beginning of line
$              Go to the end of line
g              Go to the beginning of file
G              Go to the end of file
[num]g [num]G  Go to line [num]
/pattern       Search forward in the file for the regex pattern
n              Search next
N              Search previous
q Ctrl-c       Quit
(num)+         Increment screen height
(num)-         Decrement screen height
[num]=         Set screen height to [num]
#              Toggle line number printing
ESC            Cancel
F              Toggle to follow mode

Commands on Follow Mode

/pattern       Highlight the regex pattern
q Ctrl-c       Quit
(num)+         Increment screen height
(num)-         Decrement screen height
[num]=         Set screen height to [num]
#              Toggle line number printing
ESC            Cancel
F              Toggle to normal mode

Supported Platforms

• Linux
• MacOS

License

MIT License. Please refer to LICENCE file.