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fd + xargs + bat = quick document review |
2024-02-25 |
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I've been on vacation this week, and part of what I've been up to is fixing up the Selkouutiset Archive. Like most of my websites these days, SA is powered by Hugo, which means handling a lot of Markdown documents, which means I opted to use an intermediate Git repo as a submodule to actually store the custom-processed documents.
After a few tweaks here and there, I found myself wanting to quickly flip through all of the Markdown documents I had generated for each news day. I wasn't exactly sure what I was looking for, just that I would know it when I saw it. So:
fd '.fi.md$' | xargs -I _ -- batcat --paging=always _In the associated GIF, I don't find anything, but several times earlier this
week it helped me find .md files where my html2md pipeline broke in some
subtle way. Neat!