Bat Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Hired: A Modern Take on 'Ed'

  That’s the same as bat:[1] one of the features is syntax highlighting. Kind of unexpected to find a concatenation program… which also does that. [1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep

  Good find, thanks! I'll check if I prefer it to moar. As for bat, according to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#using-bat-on-windows, the Chocolatey package simply installs `less` alongside `bat`. Seems like a good idea, but I haven't tried it. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep

  I referenced bat because I've found that suggesting cygwin sometimes provokes a negative reaction. The GP also mentioned needing to install GNU tooling as if it were a negative. Bat is fancy pager written in Rust. It's on GitHub: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• MacOS tools to make your life easier

  Try bat (it’s like cat but better) Https://github.com/sharkdp/bat. Source: 5 months ago

• Tell HN: Please don't print –help to stderr in your CLI tools

  For this reason I have a zsh function in my .zshrc with bat (which pages by default, if it's longer than your console height): https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#highlighting---help-messages

    # in your .bashrc/.zshrc/*rc.

  - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• macOS Command-Line Tools You Might Not Know About

  I've been using bat as a cat replacement for a while now. It includes paging, syntax highlighting, line numbers, and is generally very performant. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Get better with Vim one tip at a time

  I can't tell if you're being sarcastic here, but you really should check out bat. Source: 11 months ago

• R user, trying to learn Python... what´s the Rstudio equivalent?

  But you can paste from external sources into Vim. For copying from Vim into an external source, yeah that’s trickier. Personally, I usually just have two terminals open side by side, one with Vim and one with less (actually, bat with less as the pager, so it’s like less + syntax highlighting) for copying. Somewhat ghetto, but it’s a feature-packed yet lightweight setup which works for me. Source: 11 months ago

• Everything I Installed on My New Mac

  Bat is a modern replacement for cat with syntax highlighting and themes. I use it for a lot of things, but the coolest use of it that I have is to use it to preview files while fuzzy searching using fzf and opening that file in neovim. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• Top Productivity CLI Tools I Use on Linux

  Bat is a cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. It has helped me iimmensely when I want to view the contents of a file. It is a drop in replacement for cat and it has syntax highlighting for a lot of languages. It also has a pager mode which is enabled by default when output is piped to another command. It also has a lot of other features which you can read about in the documentation. In my case I... - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• Error installing waybar on arch

  If you have Bat installed, you can do pacman -Q | bat and then search for eww by typing /eww. It'll show you all the packages with eww in it. Just uninstall them using sudo pacman -Rcns. Source: 11 months ago

• Colourising man pages using variables no longer working through ssh

  Or if you have bat installed you can also use it as man pager. Source: 12 months ago

• help needed. wget and regex for version numbers.

  New_bat () { # A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. # https://github.com/sharkdp/bat local installed data online download_url release_id response zipfile_name folder_name installed=v$(bat.exe --version | awk '{ printf $2}') data=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: token " -s "https://api.github.com/repos/sharkdp/bat/releases") online=$(jq -j '.[0].tag_name' <<<"$data") ... Source: about 1 year ago

• TIL you can do `cat -n file` to easily see line numbers when looking at a file

  For stuff like this I just love bat: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat. Source: about 1 year ago

• Show HN: Gat – cat alternative written in Go

  Similar to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat but Go instead of Rust. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Recommendations on file/dir/module structure, common dependencies, and/or anti-patterns for writing CLI tool in Rust

  I'm quite new to Rust, and have been trying to learn more by working on some real solution I could see myself benefitting from, which happens to be a CLI tool at this time. I know there are some great tools written in Rust which I use day to day (such as Starship, bat, exa, etc.), but I wanted to hear experts' suggestions / recommendations on any project I should check out for clean, clear, and extensible... Source: about 1 year ago

• Mouse scrolling in `term://` buffer

  A [cat](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat] with wings. Source: about 1 year ago

• bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD

  I think you’re conflating different projects. There are projects that aim for a better user experience, with better command line interface, defaults, performance and UI. These are of course breaking changes and the programs can’t be used as drop in replacement. Some examples are - ls => exa (https://github.com/ogham/exa) - cat => bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) The person you’re replying to was speaking of a... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Midnight Commander is MIA; any command line based twin pane file manager recommendations?

  Bat - A cat clone with wings, very nice file catter. Source: about 1 year ago

• RUST ugh...me trying coding with RUST syntax... sudo 🦇🐈

  I think that he's taking about bat. Source: about 1 year ago

• Projects/Crates to Contribute To?

  Bat looks so cool!! https://github.com/sharkdp/bat - cat with syntax highlighting in Rust. Source: about 1 year ago