kato

When workin on the terminal, I've ended up preferring to take advantage of the terminal scrollback where reasonable. As such, I've moved to using cat(1) instead of less(1) for when I want to read a text file.

There are some downsides to using cat(1), though. First of all, you're allowing the author of a file to send arbitrary instructions to your terminal. This turns out to be suboptimal for security. Secondly, there is no way to tell where one file ends and another starts. This is what you want when you are using it to concatenate several files together, but it is annoying if you want to quickly look through a directory full of many small files.

I wrote a small tool called kato to solve these problems for me.