ov Plugin

Feature-rich terminal pager with column mode, incremental search, multicolor highlighting, and follow mode. A modern replacement for less and more.

Commands

• ov <resource> <action> — Execute ov commands
• ov _ _ — Passthrough to ov CLI

Installation

go install github.com/noborus/ov@latest
# or
brew install noborus/tap/ov

Download binaries from GitHub Releases.

Basic Usage

# Page a file
ov large.log

# Pipe output
kubectl logs deployment/api | ov

# Follow logs (like tail -f)
ov --follow /var/log/syslog

# Column mode for CSV/TSV
ov --column-mode data.csv

Key Features

• Incremental search (/) with highlight
• Follow mode for live log streaming
• Column mode for tabular data
• Section headers and multicolor syntax
• Mouse and keyboard navigation

Usage Examples

• "Page this log file with search"
• "Follow nginx access logs in real time"
• "View this CSV in aligned columns"

SuperCLI

sc ov _ _ large.log
sc plugins learn ov