Bat - A Cat Clone with Syntax Highlighting and Git Integration | Linux Today

Bat – A Cat Clone with Syntax Highlighting and Git Integration

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Aaron Kili
Oct 30, 2018

Tecmint: Bat is a cat command clone with advanced syntax highlighting for a large number of programming and markup languages and it also comes with Git integration to show file modifications. Its other features include automatic paging, file concatenation, themes for syntax highlighting and various styles for presenting output.

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Aaron Kili

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