staab / cateract

An interactive command-line application for viewing files.

This is a script for viewing files interactively. Inspired by fzf, which is an interactive cli file-picker.

Usage

usage: cateract [-h] filename

An interactive cli file viewer

positional arguments:
  filename    The name of the file to view

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

Once in the interactive prompt, cateract pipes the contents of the file to an executable of your choice. Further redirection is not supported, as all arguments are shell-quoted. This allows something like jq .|length to work as expected without having to quote the argument manually.

Installation

Make sure python3 is a valid command on your system, then install:

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/staab/cateract/master/cateract > ~/.local/bin/cateract
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/cateract

Then, make sure ~/.local/bin is in your path.