dog

dog - a cat alternative written in rust

dog is a replacement for the 'cat' command

dogs 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

dog [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

Manual installation

install rustc and cargo

cd /tmp

git clone https://github.com/macmoritz/dog.git
cd /tmp/dog

cargo build --release

cd target/release

./dog

To install dog locally

cd /tmp/dog
cargo install --path .

and add this line to your .bashrc or .zshrc

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.cargo/bin

Using dog instead of cat

in .zshrc or .bashrc

alias cat='dog'

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\