Bat is cat with syntax highlighting
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bat is a more human pleasing replacement of cat with the following features:
- syntax highlighting support
- git integration
- automatic paging
To test it out I wrote a file called test.py
from collections import Counter
items = [1,3,1,6,3]
c = Counter(items)
print(c[1])
And here’s a screenshot of my terminal session when I called bat
