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You can still pipe bat output as it falls back to unformated output when it detects a non-interactive terminal. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat?tab=readme-ov-file#file-conca...

For me, this simple tools is the single best command line changer! Instead of a lot of commands to traverse the folder tree, I jump where and when I want. Other nice tools I use: Fish for shell (https://fishshell.com/), Starship for prompt (https://starship.rs/), bat "a cat with wings" for file preview (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat).

“bat” is a pretty good modern “cat” https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

> Both already possible, they have official symbols representing them. I'm not sure what you mean. For an illustration, my terminal does not print anything for them. $ printf "qq\36\37text\n" qqtext *Update/Aside:* "My terminal", in this case, was `tmux`. Ghostty, OTOH, prints spaces instead of RS or US. Unicode does have some symbols for every non-printable ASCII character, which you can see as follows with https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (assuming your font has the right characters, which it probably does): $ printf "qq\36\37text\n" | bat -A --decorations never qq␞␟text␊ Here, `␞` is https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+241E, one of the symbols for non-printable characters that Unicode has; different fonts display it differently. See also https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+2400. Is there some better representati

What do you prefer about that? I already use bat for syntax highlighting but haven't used it as a pager. Edit: Oh! That's pretty. Details are at https://github.com/sharkdp/bat?tab=readme-ov-file#man

I page man (and many other things) through bat[0] which improves my experience. [0]: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

I also really like: https://github.com/eza-community/eza (modern ls replacement) https://github.com/BurntSushi/erd (modern tree replacement) https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (modern cat(1) replacement) my .zshrc for every system now uses these as drop in replacements

I discovered that you can have git use the pager you like so I set it to my darling : bat git config --global core.pager bat https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/

so where is 'cat'? https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (Haven't used this one, but it's pretty popular) Where is 'grep'? https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep Use this one often. It's fast af to search a directory of source code. Where is Korn Shell? https://fishshell.com/blog/fish-4b/ Fish is now entirely in Rust, very popular, and to be frank basically a step above bash or ksh.

My current secrets: * cht.sh is a great way to avoid a lot of this stuff - there's a commandline tool as well * usable cli ai setup: simonw's llm (https://github.com/simonw/llm) + openrouter (https://github.com/simonw/llm-openrouter) + free models (https://openrouter.ai/models?max_price=0) + glow (https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow) + adding this to your .rc file: function lm { local input="$*" llm -s 'Answer as short and concise as possible' ${input} | glow } Here's an example, $ lm "ssh command to forward the port 5050 on user@remote to my localhost:7001" ssh -L 7001:localhost:5050 user@remote $ Now for a sophisticated use-case I have a small tmux program where I can capture what's on the pane, enter a prompt and it will query