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moar – pager that reads and displays UTF-8 encoded text from files or pipelines

moar is a pager. It reads and displays UTF-8 encoded text from files or pipelines. Free and open source software.

les is a pager program similar to less and more, with several improved features. This is free and open source software.

ov is a feature rich terminal pager. It is an alternative to less, more, and tail -f. It also offers a useful function for tabular text.

less is a pager. A pager is a program that displays text files.

most is a more/less style paging program. It supports multiple windows and scrolls left/right. This is free and open source software.

slit is a modern pager for viewing logs. The goal is to get more from logs than most other pagers can – and to do so in less time.

cbonsai is a bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses. It intelligently creates, colors, and positions a bonsai tree.

Think cat, think Markdown and you’re set. mdcat renders the basic CommonMark syntax and highlights code blocks.

The main program is grcat, which acts as a filter, i.e. taking standard input, colourising it and writing to standard output.

Coreutils is a package of software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, including cat and tac.

This article spotlights alternative tools to grep, a utility that searches for patterns in each file.

pru lets you use Ruby in your pipes. Forget about grep / sed / awk / wc … It’s written in the Ruby programming language.

xlsxgrep is a CLI tool to search text in XLSX, XLS, CSV, TSV and ODS files. It works similarly to grep. Written in Python.

bingrep greps through binaries from various OSs and architectures, and colors them. This is free and open source software written in Rust.

rzgrep greps through the contents of an archive file, it also greps through any archive files that are embedded within an archive file.