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turn coloured cat and less into ccat and cless

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old approach would override systems cat, which is malicious when used in conjunction with shell piping or redirection
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markusdd
2019-02-22 14:41:01 +01:00
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plugins/available/less-pretty-cat.plugin.bash
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@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ if $(command -v pygmentize &> /dev/null) ; then
CAT_BIN=$(which cat) CAT_BIN=$(which cat)
LESS_BIN=$(which less) LESS_BIN=$(which less)
# pigmentize cat and less outputs # pigmentize cat and less outputs - call them ccat and cless to avoid that
function cat() # especially cat'ed output in scripts gets mangled with pygemtized meta characters
function ccat()
{ {
about 'runs either pygmentize or cat on each file passed in' about 'runs either pygmentize or cat on each file passed in'
param '*: files to concatenate (as normally passed to cat)' param '*: files to concatenate (as normally passed to cat)'
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ if $(command -v pygmentize &> /dev/null) ; then
done done
} }
function less() function cless()
{ {
about 'it pigments the file passed in and passes it to less for pagination' about 'it pigments the file passed in and passes it to less for pagination'
param '$1: the file to paginate with less' param '$1: the file to paginate with less'