Bat is a cat clone tool with many extra features:
- Syntax highlighting
- Git integration
- Show non-printable characters
- Automatic paging
- File concatenation
Installation
For a macOs sytem.
(For other systems check the specific installation description in the documentation)
❯ brew install bat
Usage
Display a single file on the terminal
❯ bat file.txt
Display multiple files at once
❯ bat *.txt
Read from the stdin and detect the syntax automatically
❯ curl https://google.com | bat
(To set the language to be used for the syntax highlighting -l <language> is used)
Show and highlight non-printable characters
❯ bat -A file.txt