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Bat is Like the cat Command in Linux, But Super-Charged and Written in Rust

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Bobby Borisov
Sep 27, 2021

As you know, the cat (short for concatenate) is a utility in Linux. One of its most commonly known usages is to print the content of a file onto the standard output stream. But given more time spent in the command line, features like syntax highlighting come in very handy. This is where bat comes in.
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