dotacat

dotacat is meant to be a replacement to lolcat. If you're not aware, lolcat is a rather silly program which behaves like cat, but produces a colourful, rainbow output.

Why?

Speed!

$ time echo hi | lolcat real 0m0.422s user 0m0.393s sys 0m0.028s

I use lolcat in my .bashrc file, so this amount of time is not ideal for me.

In contrast:

``` time echo hi | dotacat

real 0m0.045s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.020s

```

Why the name?

Because Dota is better than LoL (According to people - I play neither)

Installation

If you have cargo installed, just run: cargo install dotacat

If not, head over to the releases page and download the latest release. Then run:

chmod +x dotacat sudo mv dotacat /usr/local/bin

Usage

``` USAGE: dotacat [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [files]...

ARGS: ... Files to concatenate(- for STDIN)

FLAGS: -h, --help Prints help information -i, --invert Invert fg and bg -V, --version Prints version information

OPTIONS: -F, --freq Rainbow frequency [default: 0.1] -S, --seed Rainbow seed, 0 = random [default: 0.0] -p, --spread Rainbow spread [default: 1.0]

Examples: dotacat f - g Output f's contents, then stdin, then g's contents. fortune | dotacat Display a rainbow cookie. ```