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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: more

This article spotlights alternative tools to more.

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.