cat-cr

cat-cr is a crystal reimplementation of the standard unix cat utility. it's still a work in progress, but it functions in exactly the way any average user would probably expect (just spitting out the text of a file)

Installation

installation requires the crystal compiler

git clone https://github.com/elliethepuppy/cat-cr.git && cd cat-cr

sh build.sh && sh install.sh

optionally build manually:

mkdir build && crystal build src/cat-cr.cr -o build/[whatever you'd like to call it] --release --no-debug --warnings all --error-on-warnings

then install manually:

cp build/[name you chose] ~/.local/bin

if you chose to name it cat, you'll need to rename the system package to avoid clashing:

sudo mv /usr/bin/cat /usr/bin/gcat

you don't have to use gcat. that's just what i do to denote "gnu cat" as opposed to my own when they are both in the $PATH

Usage

example: cat -E src/cat-cr.cr

Development

i need help with finding all the special characters that cat proper outputs with its -v flag, so if you could find those that would be cool.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/elliethepuppy/cat-cr/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• ellie :3 - creator and maintainer