As a lerning exercise to get to know zig I build a small command line tool that works like cat. Most GNU cat commandline options are implemented.
- -A, --show-all
- -e
- -t
- -v, --show-nonprinting
Feedback from more experienced zig developers is verry welcome. If you find any bug or you see some non-idiomatic costructs please let me know.
see src/USAGE.txt
zigcat is licenced under the MIT licence
see LICENSE.txt
To build zigcat you just need the zig compiler, which can be downloaded from https://ziglang.org/download/
Currently this builds with zig 0.14.0, I will update the project fo rfuture versions.
There is no installation needed, just download the package for your operating system an extract the archive and add it to your PATH
If you have zig installed and on your PATH just cd into the directory and execute zig build
The first build takes a while and when it's finished you'll find the executeable (zigcat or zigcat.exe) in zig-out/bin/
You can run the built-in uinit tests with zig build test If everything is ok you will see no output.
Or you can run zig test src/main.zig that should give you the output "All 10 tests passed." if everything is OK.
To create an optimized release build run zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast