gnat

gnat (pronounced "NAT") is a cat remake written in Nim.

This was created to learn more about file I/O, Nim, and string processing.

If you have any suggestions on improvement, PRs and PM/Email are strongly welcome! : )

Current Features

• Read contents of file and display in standard output.
• Return stdin if no input file was passed
• Handling CTRL+C
• Handling any IO-Error or OS-Error
• Parse command line paramaters.

Planned

• Allow for concatenation of files.
• Add help menu.
• Add Options (Numbered output, Limit output amount, Suppress empty output lines).
• Optimize.

Installation & Usage

Ensure you have git and nim installed.

Clone this repository to your local machine.

(c)ompile and (-r)un the source file:

    nim c -r gnat.nim

Run the executable with the file you want to read:

  ./gnat example.txt
  ./gnat ~/path/to/MY_FAVORITE_FILE.txt

License - GPL v3