peep

The CLI text viewer tool that works like less command on small pane within the terminal window.

Demos

Pane on Terminal Window

Read from Pipe

Print Line Number

Resize Pane

Incremental Regex Search

Wide Width Character Support

Follow Mode

Highlighting on Follow Mode

Installation

shell cargo install peep

If you don't have Rust toolchains, please refer to The Rust Programming Language.

Usage

shell peep [OPTION]... [FILE]

Options

-n, --lines LINES set height of pane -t, --tab-width WIDTH set tab width -N, --print-line-number print line numbers -f, --follow output appended data as the file grows -h, --help show this usage -v, --version show version

Commands

Commands on Normal Mode

``` (num)j Scroll down (num)k Scroll up (num)d Scroll down half page (num)u Scroll up half page (num)f Scroll down a page (num)b Scroll up a page (num)l Scroll horizontally right (num)h Scroll horizontally left (num)L Scroll horizontally right half page (num)H Scroll horizontally left half page 0 Go to the beginning of line $ Go to the end of line g Go to the beginning of file G Go to the end of file [num]g [num]G Go to line [num] /pattern Search forward in the file for the regex pattern n Search next N Search previous q Ctrl-c Quit (num)+ Increment screen height (num)- Decrement screen height [num]= Set screen height to [num]

Toggle line number printing

ESC Cancel F Toggle to follow mode ```

Commands on Follow Mode

``` /pattern Highlight the regex pattern q Ctrl-c Quit (num)+ Increment screen height (num)- Decrement screen height [num]= Set screen height to [num]

Toggle line number printing

ESC Cancel F Toggle to normal mode ```

Supported Platforms

• Linux
• MacOS

License

MIT License. Please refer to LICENCE file.