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"bat" seemed interesting, until I remembered that I'd just do a "git diff" if I wanted to see a diff. The rest do not strike me as substantially better than what they're trying to replace. Enjoy them all as you will, but I would recommend refraining from describing them as "modern unix" in the presence of any old-timers.
I use bat as a drop in replacement for cat (overriding cat in my .zshrc) by using
--style=plain --paging=neveron the bat command. Basically looks and works the same as cat, except with syntax highlighting.Bat also adds lots of stuff to the output. Is there a clean print functionality without the extra numbers?
Edit: but with the parameters its great!
--style=plainwill do it!