Custom Terminal Commands using NodeJS 🚀

It is used to display or make a copy content of one or more files in the terminal.

Custom Commands Implemented

Main Commands

1. lcat "filepath" → displays content of the file in the terminal
2. lcat "filepath1" "filepath2" "filepath3" ... → displays content of all files in the terminal(contactinated form) in the given order
3. lcat -s "filepath" → convert bigger line breaks into a singular line break
4. lcat -n "filepath" → give numbering to all the lines
5. lcat -b "filepath" → give numbering to non-empty lines
6. lcat "filePath" > filename2Path → put all the content of filename into filename2Path by overriding and also creates filename2 if it doesn't exist
7. lcat "filePath" >> filename2Path → append all the content of filename into filename2Path and also creates filename2 if it doesn't exist
8. lcat -s "filename" > filename2 → get the file content of filename remove large spaces and save the output in filename2

Combine Multiple Commands

9. lcat -s -n "filepath" "filepath2" ... → convert bigger line breaks into a singular line break and give numbering to all the lines
10. lcat -s -b "filepath" "filepath2" ... → convert bigger line breaks into a singular line break and give numbering to non-empty lines

-s , -n and -b order do not matter, Write them anywhere in the query.

How to install

• Clone this repository.
• Make sure you have latest version of Node.js LTS installed in your system.
• Open the CMD/Terminal in the folder and run the command npm link
• It will make lcat as a global command on your system. (lcat is small 'L' cat)
• That's it.

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Main Commands

Combine Multiple Commands

Order of -s and -n in command query do not matter.

Command 6

NewFile is created