bat

Print and concatenate files. A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. More information: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat.

• Pretty print the contents of one or more files to stdout:

bat path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

• Concatenate several files into the target file:

bat path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ... > path/to/target_file

• Remove decorations and disable paging (--style plain can be replaced with -p, or both options with -pp):

bat --style plain --pager never path/to/file

• Highlight a specific line or a range of lines with a different background color:

bat -H|--highlight-line 10|5:10|:10|10:|10:+5 path/to/file

• Show non-printable characters like space, tab or newline:

bat -A|--show-all path/to/file

• Remove all decorations except line numbers in the output:

bat -n|--number path/to/file

• Syntax highlight a JSON file by explicitly setting the language:

bat -l|--language json path/to/file.json

• Display all supported languages:

bat -L|--list-languages