A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
bat supports syntax highlighting for a large number of programming and markup
languages:
bat communicates with git to show modifications with respect to the index
(see left side bar):
bat can pipe its own output to less if the output is too large for one screen.
Oh.. you can also use it to concatenate files :wink:. Whenever
bat detects a non-interactive terminal, it will fall back to printing
the plain file contents.
Check out the Release page for binary builds and Debian packages.
On Arch Linux, you can install the AUR package via yaourt, or manually:
bash
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/bat.git
cd bat
makepkg -si
If you want to build to compile bat from source, you need Rust 1.24 or
higher. You can then use cargo to build everything:
bash
cargo install bat
On macOS, you might have to install cmake (brew install cmake) in order for
some dependencies to be built.
bat uses the excellent syntect
library for syntax highlighting. syntect can read any
Sublime Text .sublime-syntax file
and theme.
To build your own language-set and theme, follow these steps:
Create a folder with a syntax highlighting theme:
``` bash BATCONFIGDIR="$(bat cache --config-dir)"
mkdir -p "$BATCONFIGDIR/themes" cd "$BATCONFIGDIR/themes"
git clone https://github.com/jonschlinkert/sublime-monokai-extended
ln -s "sublime-monokai-extended/Monokai Extended.tmTheme" Default.tmTheme ```
Create a folder with language definition files:
``` bash mkdir -p "$BATCONFIGDIR/syntax" cd "$BATCONFIGDIR/syntax"
git clone https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/ rm -rf Packages/Markdown git clone https://github.com/jonschlinkert/sublime-markdown-extended ```
Finally, use the following command to parse all these files into a binary cache:
bash
bat cache --init
If you ever want to go back to the default settings, call:
bash
bat cache --clear