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A cat(1) clone with wings.

90 mentions on Hacker News by 80 people: 19 stories, 71 comments · first 2018-05-01 · latest 2026-04-17

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  1. Yes, people normally publish their crates to crates.io and call it a day, see https://github.com/sharkdp/bat or https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by hazebooth · 2020-04-19 · in Ask HN: Where to publish Rust command-line tools for easy use?
  2. …and removes visual clutter from Git and diff output. [0] https://github.com/dandavison/delta [1] http://github.com/sharkdp/bat/
    comment by Myrmornis · 2020-03-04 · in Delta: A Syntax-Highlighter for Git
  3. …I don't think I would choose C for such a task these days. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker https://github.com/ogham/exa https://github.com/docker/cli…
    comment by mxschumacher · 2020-02-15 · in To become a good C programmer (2011)
  4. …and removes visual clutter from Git and diff output. [0] https://github.com/dandavison/delta [1] http://github.com/sharkdp/bat/
    comment by Myrmornis · 2020-02-12 · in Show HN: A syntax highlighter for Git and diff output, written in Rust
  5. …guy but have been using terminal more lately with tools like https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/sharkdp/fd and they work great on Windows (plus are easily installable by…
    comment by mpawelski · 2020-01-09 · in Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees
  6. Yeah so many CLI tools in Rust: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/ https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by eerrt · 2020-01-09 · in Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees
  7. (author of bat here) Exactly. Drop-in compatibility with 'cat' is one of the goals of bat (see https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#project-goals-and-alternative... and a list of alternatives here: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/doc/a…
    comment by sharkdp · 2019-09-19 · in Linux Terminal Goods
  8. …colours exa[2]: Replace ls with many more options [0]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep [1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat [2]: https://github.com/ogham/exa I do not have any affiliation with them, I just use them a lot Edit:…
    comment by CiTyBear · 2019-07-17 · in A proactive approach to more secure code
  9. …[0]: https://github.com/silvanocerza/dotfiles/blob/master/zsh/zsh... [1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat [2]: https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by alien1993 · 2019-07-17 · in Show HN: Turn your fzf into a live REPL
  10. …features line numbers, syntax highlighting, and paging without piping to less/more out of the box: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
    comment by bschne · 2019-07-09 · in Cat Colors
  11. …comments already referenced bat . It's also what impressed me the most. It looks great. Link below: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
    comment by O1111OOO · 2019-03-07 · in Writing a Book with Unix
  12. …and neat Rust projects like this, the source code is concise and easy to read. He also authors https://github.com/sharkdp/bat , which is also worth to check out.
    comment by teacpde · 2019-01-09 · in Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
  13. …lands as a big exception to that rule for me. [0] https://github.com/Netflix-Skunkworks/go-jira [1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat [2] https://github.com/adtac/climate
    comment by mdip · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  14. …highlighting for everything that comes down the pipe is pretty awesome. I'm also a sucker for bat ( https://github.com/sharkdp/bat ) which I just found out about through this thread. My zshrc includes a bunch of commands you might like,…
    comment by scrollaway · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  15. Just about every Rust cli app written by sharkdp: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/sharkdp/diskus https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine For viewing csv's as tabular, paged data from the…
    comment by Dowwie · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  16. …+ neovim * Google Play Music - tuijam( https://github.com/cfangmeier/tuijam ) I really like bat ( https://github.com/sharkdp/bat ) as a cat replacement, and I've been enjoying using entr ( http://entrproject.org/ ) for running tests…
    comment by bobfromhuddle · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  17. I have written a short (and definitely subjective) overview of the different alternatives here: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/doc/alternatives....
    comment by sharkdp · 2018-08-30 · in CLI: Improved
  18. bat can still be used to concatenate files: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#file-concatenation "Whenever bat detects a non-interactive terminal, it will fall back to printing the plain file contents."
    comment by dguo · 2018-08-30 · in CLI: Improved
  19. …https://github.com/ogham/exa - bat: A 'cat' replacement. I recommend following the customizations. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat Written in Python - asciinema: Terminal session recorder https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema - httpie:…
    comment by zodiac · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?
  20. …https://github.com/ogham/exa - bat: A 'cat' replacement. I recommend following the customizations. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat Written in Python: - asciinema: Terminal session recorder https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema - httpie:…
    comment by Dowwie · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?
  21. bat https://github.com/sharkdp/bat exa http://the.exa.website Both are good additions.
    comment by hoppelhase · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?