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Piek

Mon Nov 25 2019
Peek into files from the command line

PIEK

Peek into any file right from your terminal.

Usage

Just run piek yourfile.txt from anywhere in your terminal to open the file. Use your arrow keys (up and down) to navigate from within the file. You can also expand/collapse the size of your view by pressing shift+up/down.

PIEK usage demo

Installation

You need Node.js installed. Run npm i -g piek to install PIEK globally so you can run piek filename.txt from anywhere in your terminal.

$ npm i -g piek
$ piek filename.txt

You can also run PIEK by calling npx piek yourfile.txt to skip installation and directly run it.

$ npx piek yourfile.txt
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Lukas Bach
Software engineer at GoTo