far (A file reader for Windows System like cat for linux.)

A file opener for Windows command prompt and PowerShell like 'cat' for linux distributions.

Motivation

Using linux it was very comforting to see the file contents on the terminal using cat command. But while using windows , there is none, at least not preinstalled.So I tried to create the similar application that uses command far for Windows Command Prompt and Powershell.

Install

To download the far visit https://farcli.netlify.app/ and follow accordingly.

After the command completes, You can directly paste the path to that executable file far.exe to environment variable and you can use far in your command prompt. Now go to Command Prompt and type far, it should work. If it doesn't work, the path to the executable is not placed in environment variable. If you don't know that you can make a google on how to set environment variable and you are ready to go on.

Usage

Using far you can do same stuff as cat like

far src/main.js

The syntax is

	far <filepath> < --c | --copy | copy>

where

• far is the command
• replace with actual filepath like src/main.js or abc.txt Now with this command it will print the file like

 C:\Users\ABC\Desktop>far main.js

 1  | var name="John Doe";
 2  | function printName(name){
 3  |	console.log(name)
 4  | }
 5  | printName(name);
 6  |

But if you want to select and copy you don't want the row counter at the left. So to sort it out there is third argument. The third argument is optional. You can put any of --c or --copy or copy as the third argument and the output looks like following:

 C:\Users\ABC\Desktop>far main.js --c

 var name="John Doe";
 function printName(name){
	console.log(name)
 }
 printName(name);

And you can select and copy any part of the code and paste wherever you want it.