kat

This project is to replicate the behavior of the popular bash command cat in go

Install

Linux / macOS

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shellhaki/kat/main/install.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shellhaki/kat/main/install.ps1 | iex

Both installers resolve the latest GitHub release, verify the SHA256 checksum, and install the binary (~/.local/bin on Linux/macOS, %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\kat on Windows). Overrides:

Variable	Default
KAT_VERSION	latest release
KAT_INSTALL_DIR	~/.local/bin (/usr/local/bin as root) / %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\kat

KAT_VERSION=v1.0.0 KAT_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/bin sh install.sh

Prebuilt targets: linux/amd64, linux/arm64, darwin/amd64, darwin/arm64, windows/amd64, windows/arm64.

Usage

kat <fileName>
kat --version

Development

make dev        # go run
make build      # ./bin/kat with version info baked in
make build-all  # cross-compile every release target into dist/
make install    # build and copy to ~/.local/bin
make clean

Releasing

Releases are cut by .github/workflows/release.yml on any v* tag:

git tag -a v1.0.0 -m "v1.0.0"
git push origin v1.0.0

The workflow cross-compiles all six targets, stamps main.version / main.commit / main.date via -ldflags, packages .tar.gz (Unix) and .zip (Windows) archives plus a checksums.txt, and publishes them to a GitHub release with generated notes.