bat Command Examples

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}}