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.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Supports fixed header line display (both wrap/nowrap).
- Supports column mode, which recognizes columns by delimiter.
- Also, in column mode, there is a column-rainbow mode that colors each column.
- Supports section-by-section movement, splitting sections by delimiter.
- Dynamic wrap/nowrap switchable.
- Supports alternating row styling.
- Shortcut keys are customizable.
- The style of the effect is customizable.
- Supports follow-mode (like tail -f).
- Supports follow-section, which is displayed when the section is updated.
- Supports following multiple files and switching when updated(follow-all).
- Supports the execution of commands that toggle both stdout and stder for display.
- Supports watch mode, which reads files on a regular basis.
- Supports incremental search and regular expression search.
- Supports multi-color to highlight multiple words individually.
- Better support for Unicode and East Asian Width.
- Supports compressed files (gzip, bzip2, zstd, lz4, xz).
- Suitable for tabular text. psql, mysql, csv, etc…
Website: github.com/noborus/ov
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Developer: Noboru Saito
License: MIT License
ov is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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