Terminal

Peco is great little command line tool for interactively filtering log files, tail output, process lists etc… Similar to grep in the way you might want to use it to locate items of interest based on either literal text or a regular expression. The project is hosted on Github: https://github.com/peco/peco

Peco’s real power is in the interactive way in which it filters as you type, which is great if your tracking something down and do not initially know exactly what it is your looking for.

I came across this one day when pasting commands into my terminal on Linux only to find the value I had pasted had some strange characters in-front of it and after it. In my case the pasted text was prefixed with ‘00~’ and suffixed with ‘01~’, looking like this: