Gat – cat alternative written in Go
🐱 cat alternative written in Go. Contribute to koki-develop/gat development by creating an account on GitHub.
Gat – cat alternative written in Go launched on April 4, 2023 with 40 votes, #1,478 of 4,853 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Gat is a command-line tool written in Go that functions as an alternative to the Unix cat command. It is designed for developers and system administrators who work with text files and command-line interfaces. The tool provides cat-like functionality while leveraging Go's performance characteristics and cross-platform capabilities.
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