lolcat VS jq

I always got a kick out of lolcat's "versioning": https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat/tags

More bonus points if also uses lolcat.

This script uses the toilet and lolcat utils to generate messages that will grab your user’s attentionand the who util to find the tty and pts devices of logged-in users so it can send them said messages.

If you install lolcat first, you can also get some lsd into your terminal with

you can also pipe cmatrix to lolcat for rainbowz!!

Ah. Those colors are actually from being piped into “lolcat” https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat

Straight Python port of the Ruby version at https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat/ but with 100% more fun, because, hey, it’s not Ruby. There are no external dependencies..

lolcat : "Rainbows and unicorns!"

That should recursively list directories, counting only the files within each, and output² jsonl that can be further mangled within the shell². You could just as easily populate an associative array for further work, or $whatever. Unlike bash, zsh has reasonable behaviour around quoting and whitespace too.

¹ https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/User-Contributions.ht...

² https://github.com/jpmens/jo

³ https://github.com/stedolan/jq

What I miss from jq and what is implemented but unreleased is platform independent line delimiters.

jq on Windows produces \r\n terminated lines which can be annoying when used with Cygwin / MSYS2 / WSL. The '--binary' option to not convert line delimiters is one of those pending improvements.

https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/0dab2b18d73e561f511801...

If you have jq installed you can use it to make the output look nicer.

It requires jq for JSON processing and GNU parallel for concurrent searches in the notebooks.

jq is your friend.

The jq command (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) is useful pulling that information out.