Data wrangler, software engineer, systems programmer, cyclist. Unix (mostly Solaris) for aeons. I talk C, Python, SQL, Performance, Java, Kafka and Makefiles.
Location
Brisbane, Australia
Education
BA (Mathematics, Modern History), University of Queensland
No, because that's not its job. If you want search highlighting use a colourised grep. If you just want to see the whole file, use cat. Do one thing, do it well.
Ryan is an engineer in the Sacramento Area with a focus in Python, Ruby, and Rust. Bash/Python Exercism mentor. Coding, physics, calculus, music, woodworking. Looking for work!
Yeah cool, just checking. Thanks for clarifying. This post was mostly about different ways to see more of the file as you searched for specific things, but you are right that if all you want to do is see the contents of the file, cat is the best option for short files. I appreciate the addition!
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No, because that's not its job. If you want search highlighting use a colourised grep. If you just want to see the whole file, use cat. Do one thing, do it well.
Yeah cool, just checking. Thanks for clarifying. This post was mostly about different ways to see more of the file as you searched for specific things, but you are right that if all you want to do is see the contents of the file, cat is the best option for short files. I appreciate the addition!