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Description:
Powerful multi-lingual file viewer/grep

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 4.51@1 | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: viewer grep pager file-search cli

Install: brew install lv

About:
LV is a powerful, multi-lingual file viewer that combines the functionality of grep with a sophisticated pager. It can search through compressed archives and display results with highlighting, making it ideal for sifting through large codebases or log files. Its value lies in its ability to handle various encodings and archives seamlessly within a single interface.

Key Features:

Integrated grep and pager functionality
Support for multiple compression formats (gzip, bzip2, etc.)
Multi-lingual character encoding support
Pattern matching with highlighting

Use Cases:

Searching through large source code directories
Viewing and filtering compressed log files
Reading text files with mixed character encodings

Alternatives:

grep – Standard Unix tool for searching, but lacks built-in paging and archive handling
less – Advanced pager, but does not have built-in grep or archive extraction capabilities
ripgrep – Modern, fast search tool, but focuses on searching rather than viewing

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 18, 2024 5:41pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	b58b7901
Dec 18, 2024 1:16pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	d476a0b0
Sep 14, 2024 11:50pm	4.51	1	VERSION_BUMP	d7a4c683
Sep 14, 2024 6:08pm	4.51	1	VERSION_BUMP	dec00221