Recommended way to process text/tags within a file? (ex. `cat file` which contains [B]text[/] )

[MostHated]

Hey there, I started playing around with this last night and wanted to use it to spruce up some of my terminal text that I have generated via Jobber (similar to cron) which gets output into files on a ram drive, then when I open the terminal it just does cat file. I wanted to add some tags into the text for color and bold, etc to start out, but I was not able to get it to actually process those tags to display.

This is the overall setup:

# -- script to check for updates that runs every 10-15 minutes

if [[ $UPDATESTATUS == false ]]; then
    echo 'UPDATE_COMPLETE=true' >/home/mosthated/.updatestatus
    sudo apt-get update -qq
    UPDATES=$(sudo apt-get dist-upgrade --simulate | grep Inst | awk '{print $2}')
    COUNT=$(printf "%s\n" "$UPDATES" | grep -v "^$" | wc -l)
else
    exit 0
fi

UPDATECOUNT="[bold green]${COUNT}[/] update(s) available"
kvset updates "${UPDATECOUNT}" # -- outputs the above string to ramdrive

Then in my .zshrc I have:

cat /mnt/ramdisk/.kv/updates 

The things I tried to do were as follows:

rich /mnt/ramdisk/.kv/updates --print # just printed out the path
cat /mnt/ramdisk/.kv/updates | rich - # displayed the text in the file, but just as plain text showing the [tags], not processing them
rich cat /mnt/ramdisk/.kv/updates --print
rich $(cat /mnt/ramdisk/.kv/updates) --print

Is there a proper way to accomplish this, or is this out of scope of the intended usage of the cli?
Thanks,
-MH

[Will McGugan]

I think that the last example may work if you enclose it in quotes.

If it doesn't, it may be worth adding a switch that says print console markup from file. Will consider that for the next release.

[MostHated]

I knew I should have tried that, lol. That seems to have done the job... for the most part?

Its working well, minus an emoji I tried to add just to see if it would work. I don't know if it should be working, I saw the Rich library had the capability on the python side, but not sure if that necessarily means it should be working with the CLI, too? I don't recall seeing it mentioned in the readme of this lib.

[Will McGugan]

Did you add the --emoji switch?

[MostHated]

Oh, no, I didn't realize there was one. I searched the readme for 'emoji' and didn't see mention of anything, so I just figured that --print would have worked. I added it now, and of course, it's working as expected. Thanks again. 👍