ccat

A simple command-line tool written in Go for processing text input and files, inspired by Unix utilities. It handles standard input, file concatenation, and line numbering.

Features

• Standard Input:
  • Print input as-is (-).
  • Number non-empty lines (-b).
  • Number all lines (-n).
• File Handling:
  • Read and print single file contents.
  • Concatenate and print multiple files.

Prerequisites

• Go installed on your system.

Usage

Clone the project

    git clone https://github.com/TG199/ccat.git

Build the Program

make build

Testing

make test

Example commands

1. Read from standard in

./bin/ccat

2. Process files

   Single file

   ./bin/ccat test.txt

   Multiple files

   ./bin/ccat test.txt test2.txt ...

3. Number lines

   Number lines as they are printed

   head -n3 test.txt | ./bin/ccat -n

   Number empty lines

   sed G test.txt | ./bin/ccat -n | head -n4

   Exclude empty lines

   sed G test.txt | ./bin/ccat -b | head -n5

Clean build artifacts

make clean

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit a pull request or open an issue.

License

This project is open-source and available under the MIT License.