bat

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Print and concatenate files. A `cat` clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

Options (5)

-H, --highlight-lineboolean

Highlight a specific line or a range of lines with a different background color

Example: bat {{[-H|--highlight-line]}} {{10|5:10|:10|10:|10:+5}} {{path/to/file}}

-A, --show-allboolean

Show non-printable characters like space, tab, or newline

Example: bat {{[-A|--show-all]}} {{path/to/file}}

-n, --numberboolean

Remove all decorations except line numbers in the output

Example: bat {{[-n|--number]}} {{path/to/file}}

-l, --languageboolean

Syntax highlight a JSON file by explicitly setting the language

Example: bat {{[-l|--language]}} json {{path/to/file.json}}

-L, --list-languagesboolean

Display all supported languages

Example: bat {{[-L|--list-languages]}}

Pretty print the contents of one or more files to `stdout`

bat path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Concatenate several files into the target file

bat path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ... > path/to/target_file

Remove decorations and disable paging (`--style plain` can be replaced with `-p`, or both options with `-pp`)

bat --style plain --pager never path/to/file

Highlight a specific line or a range of lines with a different background color

bat [-H|--highlight-line] 10|5:10|:10|10:|10:+5 path/to/file

Show non-printable characters like space, tab, or newline

bat [-A|--show-all] path/to/file

Remove all decorations except line numbers in the output

bat [-n|--number] path/to/file

Syntax highlight a JSON file by explicitly setting the language

bat [-l|--language] json path/to/file.json

Display all supported languages

bat [-L|--list-languages]