On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 04:01, Seth Arnold <seth.arn...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 11:02:24PM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > Do you have any tips about generic command-line coloring programs? > > The bat package provides a batcat program that'll add colour to a lot of > different file formats. There's some screenshots on the github page: > https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
Thanks, bat is great. It has now become my standard replacement for 'cat'. I recently also switched to fzf[1] for my 'cd' and Ctrl+R use. Thanks to this Debian-devel list I've learnt about both Liquid Prompt and the fuzzy-finder for the bash prompt, which both are very useful and solid (and not overly complex or incompatible like all those zsh extensions many Mac users rely on). I didn't expect that the command-line efficiency can still increase this much in 2021 and I am a bit surprised the standard tools shipped in all Linux distros are still the same as in the past 30 years or so. There is a lot of productivity improvements people are missing out with the standard tools.. [1] https://linuxnatives.net/2021/save-time-command-line-fuzzy-finder
