Zat

gimme zat

We have head to display the first n lines of a file, and we have tail to display the last n lines of a file, but I haven't heard of a program that does the opposite of those two: display a range of lines inside of a file.

This program lets you do exactly that!

zat file.txt

one
two
three
four
five
six

zat file.txt -s 2 -e 4

two
three
four

Use -s/--start to specify the first line you want to display, and up to the -e/--end line. Both the start and the end are inclusive.

Lines are 1-indexed, but 0 also means 1. Specifying -s 0 -e 0 will just display the first line. The more natural way of doing this is -e 1.

Both flags are optional, so you could use this as a cat that doesn't concatenate (because cat does it already).

If you want to display a range of lines of stdin, rather than a file, just don't specify the file argument.

git --help | zat -s 12 -e 16

Usage

Print a range of lines of a file.

Usage: zat [FILE] [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -s, --start <NUM>
  -e, --end <NUM>
  -h, --help           Print help (see more with '--help')
  -V, --version        Print version

Install

cargo install zat

cargo binstall and cargo quickinstall are also supported.

Uninstall

cargo uninstall zat