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  • ov

    🎑Feature-rich terminal-based text viewer. It is a so-called terminal pager.

  • There is a --config flag to specify the location[1] but I agree it should be in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME by default.

    [1] https://github.com/noborus/ov/blob/master/main.go#L207

  • bat

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

  • - https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (uses `less` under the hood, syntax highlighting and git diffs)

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  • If the log-file viewing capabilities look interesting to you, check out lnav, which is built for that and excels at it:

    https://lnav.org/

  • kanten

    the enlightened pager. less paging. more content. read widely.

  • less

    Less - text pager

  • First of all please keep in mind that "less" is wonderfully updated https://github.com/gwsw/less

  • moar

    Moar is a pager. It's designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.

  • mdviewer

    Rendered display of markdown on terminal

  • It can also be created using the ov(oviewer) package. Here's a sample: https://github.com/noborus/mdviewer

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  • pspg

    Unix pager (with very rich functionality) designed for work with tables. Designed for PostgreSQL, but MySQL is supported too. Works well with pgcli too. Can be used as CSV or TSV viewer too. It supports searching, selecting rows, columns, or block and export selected area to clipboard.

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