Personal use case featuring two popular tools with different strengths and
interfaces.
Omit a third alternative with similar results due to being objectively much
worse in my experience:
mediainfo --inform='General;%Duration% %OverallBitRate% %FileNameExtension%\n' *
tree -s --noreport | barcat -H -f+
+Compare media metadata, like image size or play time:
+
+ exiftool -T -p '$megapixels ($imagesize) $filename' * | barcat
+
+ exiftool -T -p '$duration# $avgbitrate# $filename' * | barcat -H
+
+ find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -L1 \
+ ffprobe -show_format -of json -v error |
+ jq -r '[.format|.duration,.bit_rate,.filename]|join(" ")' | barcat -H
+
Memory usage of user processes with long names truncated:
ps xo rss,pid,cmd | barcat -l40
s/\\\n\s*//g; # line continuations
s/^[(\h]+//; # subshell
s/^echo\ .*?\|\s*//; # preceding input
+ s/'(\S+)[^']*'/$1/g; # quoted arguments
s/\|.*//; # subsequent pipes
s/^cat\ //; # local file
s/^curl\ // and do { # remote url