Command-line tool

bat

brew/bat

Checked 25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC · Listing refreshed from Homebrew, winget, npm, Scoop and cargo; npm packages checked against OSV.dev

Clone of cat(1) with syntax highlighting and Git integration rust cli cat

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

winget install --id sharkdp.bat -e
scoop install bat
cargo install bat

macOS

brew install bat
cargo install bat

Linux

brew install bat
cargo install 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

bat -pp path/to/file

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