bradeythedev/dog

The reverse of cat. Literally

dog

The reverse of cat. Literally.

Dog is a command line utility designed for Unix-like systems, which reverses the text piped into it.

Installation

Releases

Note: to install Dog to your system globally, as instructed below, you will need to have access to root privileges. To download a specific release, head to the releases tab and download dog and README.md from your preferred release. When those files have been downloaded into a common location, open a terminal in their parent folder and run chmod +x dog && sudo cp dog /usr/bin to install Dog on your system. If you use an operating system that does not use sudo, such as a BSD, you may need to use an alternative command, like doas. If you are unsure of your OS's equivalent, you could alternatively run su then cp dog /usr/bin.

Build from source

To build from source, open a terminal and run git clone https://github.com/bradeythedev/dog to download this repository. Now run cd dog to enter the repo's directory, and then make to build it. If you do not wish to install Dog to your $PATH, you are done. However, if you want to be able to use the dog command from anywhere or anyone on your system, you will need to install it globally by running sudo make install. If your system does not use sudo, you may need to use an equivalent in its place, or log in as root with su.

If you want to build another version of Dog, you can use the make clean command in the same directory, and sudo make uninstall to remove all Dog binaries from your system, ready for a fresh build.

Using Dog

dog does not take any arguments, so using it is as simple as piping text into it via the command line.

Examples

The example below prints the contents of 'file.txt' in reverse. cat file.txt | dog

The example below prints the text 'hello world' in reverse, resulting in 'dlrow olleh' echo "hello world" | dog

The future of Dog

Dog was intended to be nothing more than a quick C/C++ project (that ended up with me having to learn C++ vectors >:( ), so I do not have any future plans for it beyond creating this Github repository. If you spot a bug, you're more than welcome to make a pull request. Remember, Dog is licensed under the MIT license, so if you want to borrow it, feel free (just remember to credit who wrote this piece of junk in the first place ;) ). Oh- and don't forget to give me a star because woo a star!