Modern CLI

bat Commands

bat is a cat clone with syntax highlighting, git integration, and paging. Makes reading code files in the terminal a pleasure.

7 commands

Pro Tips

Pipe to bat for syntax highlighting: curl api.com | bat -l json

Use bat -p for plain output without decorations.

$ bat file.js

Display with syntax highlighting.

$ bat -n file.py

Display line numbers only.

$ bat -p file.txt

No line numbers or decorations.

$ bat -l json file

Force specific language highlighting.

$ bat --diff file1 file2

Show differences between files.

$ curl -s api.example.com | bat -l json

Highlight piped JSON output.

$ bat --list-themes

Show available color themes.