bat – super charged cat – my favorite colorizer

Posted by sde on Aug 22, 2018 5:47 PM EDT
LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms
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bat is a drop-in replacement for the cat command adding advanced syntax highlighting and Git integration to show file modifications. It’s a really useful utility that is a massive leap up from cat. bat’s written in the Rust programming language.

Besides colorizing programming code, bat also communicates with git to show modifications with respect to the index. And there’s the ability to pipe its own output to less if the output is too large for one screen.

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