bat
Project: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
Author: David Peter
Alternative to: cat
License: MIT
Language: Rust
Page updated: 2026-03-15
Automatic paging
bat can pipe its own output to less if the output is too large for one screen.
Syntax highlighting
bat supports syntax highlighting for a large number of programming and markup languages:
Git integration
bat communicates with git to show modifications with respect to the index
(see left side bar):
Show non-printable characters
You can use the -A/--show-all option to show and highlight non-printable characters:
