fx VS Bat

Neat! You mentioned not getting the hang of jq, have you played with fx? Source: 12 months ago

This looks like something I'd use often. Thanks for creating it! For anyone who's not familiar, Anton is also behind the highly useful fx[0] for wrangling JSON data in the terminal. [0] https://github.com/antonmedv/fx. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I've been so fed up with jq's annoying syntax that I began thinking about developing something that can perform json operations in familiar syntax such as javascript but I ran into fx (https://github.com/antonmedv/fx) and it's been pretty great actually. Source: over 1 year ago

Hi I’m the author of https://github.com/antonmedv/fx (terminal JSON viewer) Recently I decided to rewrite entire program to Go. And usually on second rewrite things end-up better. Main reason for this, I believe is clear end result, the target. I think new ersion of fx is much more superior:) I recommend you, to check it out ;) Would like to have some feedback and ideas for improvement. One of new cool features... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

I really like fx (https://github.com/antonmedv/fx) for interactive stuff. It does exactly what I think you want. You can expand individual fields and explore the schema. However, I really do like jq for queries and scripting, so I keep both around. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

That’s the same as bat:[1] one of the features is syntax highlighting. Kind of unexpected to find a concatenation program… which also does that. [1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Good find, thanks! I'll check if I prefer it to moar. As for bat, according to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#using-bat-on-windows, the Chocolatey package simply installs `less` alongside `bat`. Seems like a good idea, but I haven't tried it. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I referenced bat because I've found that suggesting cygwin sometimes provokes a negative reaction. The GP also mentioned needing to install GNU tooling as if it were a negative. Bat is fancy pager written in Rust. It's on GitHub: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Try bat (it’s like cat but better) Https://github.com/sharkdp/bat. Source: 5 months ago

For this reason I have a zsh function in my .zshrc with bat (which pages by default, if it's longer than your console height): https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#highlighting---help-messages

  # in your .bashrc/.zshrc/*rc.

- Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago