🦇 bat/ sharkdp

How to use

Display a single file on the terminal

bat README.md

Display multiple files at once

bat src/*.rs

Read from stdin, determine the syntax automatically (note, highlighting will only work if the syntax can be determined from the first line of the file, usually through a shebang such as #!/bin/sh)

curl -s https://sh.rustup.rs | bat

Read from stdin, specify the language explicitly

yaml2json .travis.yml | json_pp | bat -l json

Show and highlight non-printable characters:

bat -A /etc/hosts

Use it as a cat replacement:

bat > note.md  # quickly create a new file

bat header.md content.md footer.md > document.md

bat -n main.rs  # show line numbers (only)

bat f - g  # output 'f', then stdin, then 'g'.

Installation