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most – paging software

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.

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.

ngrep is a PCAP-based tool that allows you to specify an extended regular or hexadecimal expression to match against data payloads of packets.

UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code.

vgrep is a pager for grep, git-grep, ripgrep and similar grep tools. It allows opening the indexed file locations in a user-specified editor.

phpgrep is both a library and a command-line tool. The library can be used to perform syntax-aware PHP code matching inside Go programs.

ack is designed as an alternative to grep for programmers. It is highly portable and runs on any platform that runs Perl.