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noborus/ov

🎑Feature-rich terminal-based text viewer. It is a so-called terminal pager. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/noborus/ov · homepage · Go · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

93/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 80
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 33.5
  • age_days: 2356
  • days_rel: 52
  • days_push: 8
  • n_releases_24m: 21

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2009 stars · 48 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

ov is a feature-rich terminal pager written in Go, serving as a modern alternative to less and more. It supports fixed headers/columns, column mode for tabular data, follow mode for real-time updates, incremental search, and handles large and compressed files.

Use cases

  • view large log files in the terminal
  • replace less with a better pager
  • follow log files like tail -f with search
  • view CSV or tabular output with aligned columns
  • page through git diff output
  • monitor file changes periodically
  • read compressed gzip or zstd files directly

When to avoid

  • you only need the simplest possible pager with no learning curve
  • you need a GUI text viewer or editor

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli terminal-ui search-engine developer-tools files windows bsd cross-platform cli terminal-pager tui less-alternative tail-follow column-mode incremental-search go command-line linux macos

2 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
noborus/ovmain93

For agents

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