Act
Preview files from the command line efficiently. cat for the twenty first century!
Features
- Flexible input handling
- Support for colon syntax
- Support for GitHub like URLs
- Automatic syntax highlighting based on the file extension (via Pygments)
- Fast enough for the task
Installation
$ [sudo] gem install act
$ [sudo] easy_install Pygments #optionalHelp needed
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Usage
Print a complete file:
$ act lib/act/command.rb
0 require 'colored'
1 require 'claide'
2 require 'active_support/core_ext/string/strip'
[...]Print the line 10 with the default context (5 lines):
$ act lib/act/command.rb:10
5 module Act
6 class Command < CLAide::Command
7
8 self.command = 'act'
9 self.description = 'Act the command line tool to act on files'
10
11 def self.options
12 [
13 ['--open', "Open the file in $EDITOR instead of printing it"],
14 ['--no-line-numbers', "Show output without line numbers"],
15 ['--version', 'Show the version of Act'],
Open in $EDITOR the file at the given line:
$ act lib/act/command.rb:10 --openPrint from line 8 to line 12:
$ act lib/act/command.rb:8-12
8 self.command = 'act'
9 self.description = 'Act the command line tool to act on files'
10
11 def self.options
12 [
Print from line 10 with 2 lines of context:
$ act lib/act/command.rb:10+2
8 self.command = 'act'
9 self.description = 'Act the command line tool to act on files'
10
11 def self.options
12 [
Show ./lib/act/command.rb from line 8 to line 9:
$ act https://github.com/irrationalfab/act/blob/master/lib/act/command.rb\#L8-L9
8 self.command = 'act'
9 self.description = 'Act the command line tool to act on files'
Open $EDITOR ./lib/act/command.rb at line 8:
$ act https://github.com/irrationalfab/act/blob/master/lib/act/command.rb\#L8-L9