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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. Some others that look really clean: bat: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat tldr: https://tldr.sh/ fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
    comment by ibraheemdev · 2021-04-20 · in Ask HN: Show me the sexy, sexy home page of your favorite free CLI project
  2. Not to be mixed with the Rust version of `cat` (but with wings): https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/
    comment by batisteo · 2021-02-06 · in Show HN: Ht – HTTPie Clone in Rust
  3. …also colorize man pages quite nicely. The advantage being it will also highlight C code etc. [1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
    comment by indentit · 2020-12-05 · in Reading Manpages Like a Pro (2018)
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    bat, a cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting, Git integration written in Rust
    story by tosh · 2020-10-21 · 6 comments
  5. …for Hacktoberfest in order to help contributors who are completely new to the open source world: - https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/1211 - https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/1213 - https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/1216 Curious…
    comment by sharkdp · 2020-10-03 · in Hacktoberfest Is Now Opt-In
  6. …syntax highlighting, paging and has git integration. It's written by the same developer as fd https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
    comment by petepete · 2020-09-01 · in Htop 3.0
  7. bat is another great alternative https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
    comment by Gee19 · 2020-08-22 · in Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)
  8. …colorized feature-rich alternatives: ls -> [exa]( https://github.com/ogham/exa ) cat -> [bat]( https://github.com/sharkdp/bat ) du -> [ncdu]( https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu ) diff -> [delta]( https://github.com/dandavison/delta ) In…
    comment by IggleSniggle · 2020-07-26 · in Colorize Your CLI
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    bat - a cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration
    story by modinfo · 2020-07-13 · 0 comments
  10. …with alacritty for a while. All of them are pretty good https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by AzzieElbab · 2020-05-03 · in Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)
  11. …human readable. [0] https://github.com/dandavison/delta [1] https://github.com/trishume/syntect [2] http://github.com/sharkdp/bat/
    comment by Myrmornis · 2020-04-27 · in Show HN: A syntax highlighter for Git and diff output, written in Rust
  12. 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?
  13. …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
  14. …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)
  15. …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
  16. …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
  17. 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
  18. (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
  19. …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
  20. …[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
  21. …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
  22. …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
  23. …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
  24. …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?
  25. …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?
  26. 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?
  27. …+ 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?
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    Bat: A cat(1) clone with wings
    story by swalsh · 2018-08-31 · 12 comments
  29. 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
  30. 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
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    story by unmole · 2018-08-27 · 1 comment
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    story by guessmyname · 2018-07-06 · 1 comment
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    story by keyi · 2018-05-09 · 0 comments
  36. …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?
  37. …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?
  38. 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?
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    story by ingve · 2018-05-01 · 1 comment
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    story by velmu · 2018-05-01 · 0 comments