useclis
bat
batFiles & documentsBy sharkdp ↗
Read source files in the terminal with optional syntax highlighting.
For your agent
Use plain, unpaged output when passing file contents through an automated workflow.
Example command
bat --style=plain --paging=never README.mdRun after following the project’s setup instructions. Local files, credentials, or a connected service may be required.
What it does
- File viewing
- Syntax highlighting
- Plain output
Homebrew installs
bat ↗Explicitly requested installation events
- 30 days
- 10,126
- 90 days
- 34,947
- 365 days
- 206,260
From Homebrew installations that report analytics. Includes package variants; counts are not unique users.
Checked . Source dated . How installs are counted ↗
Repository activity
Commits per week · GitHub snapshot
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Commands and capabilities are described from the project documentation. Repository statistics cover sharkdp/bat, which may contain more than the CLI. Listing a tool does not mean every command has been tested with every agent.
