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CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops

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spacer

 

Build status Crates.io

spacer is a simple CLI tool to insert spacers when command output
stops.

If you're the type of person that habitually presses enter a few
times in your log tail to know where the last request ended and the
new one begins, this tool is for you!

[spacer]

Installation

 

With Homebrew:

brew install spacer

Direct from Cargo:

cargo install spacer

Usage

 

By default, spacer outputs a spacer after 1 second with no output.
You can change this with the --after flag.

tail -f some.log | spacer --after 5

--after accepts a number of seconds, and allows floating point
numbers for extra precision.

STDOUT and STDERR

 

Some commands output most of their information on STDERR, not STDOUT.
spacer only monitors STDOUT, so if you find a situation where spacer
doesn't seem to be working it could be that the program you're piping
from is using STDERR.

To "fix" that, pipe both STDERR to STDOUT to spacer by using |&
instead of | as the pipe characters:

my-command |& spacer

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CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops

github.com/samwho/spacer

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v0.3.0 Latest
Sep 18, 2023
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  * @davc0n

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