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bat — Print and concatenate files. A `cat` clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. More inform

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Problem

How to use the bat command: Print and concatenate files. A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. More information: <https://manned.org/bat>.

Solution

bat — Print and concatenate files. A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. More information: <https://manned.org/bat>.

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]}}

Code Snippets

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}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/bat

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