bat/README.md
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bat

Build Status Version info

A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

Features

Syntax highlighting

bat supports a large number of programming and markup languages (see below):

Syntax highlighting example

Git integration

bat communicates with git to show modifications with respect to the index (see left side bar):

Git integration example

Installation

Check out the Release page for binary builds and Debian packages.

From source

If you want to build to compile bat from source, you need Rust 1.22 or higher. Make sure that you have the devel-version of libopenssl installed (see instructions here). You can then use cargo to build everything:

cargo install bat