A cat(1) clone with wings.
- Recommended by
- 11
- GitHub stars
- 61k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Language
- Rust
- Last commit
- 1 Nov 2026
What people said
“for fuzzy shell history (ctrl+r) (nice coloured cat replacement) (so I don't need docker desktop) (performant database that lets you directly query…”
“For this reason I have a zsh function in my.zshrc with bat (which pages by default, if it's longer than your console height): # in your.bashrc/.zshrc/*rc alias bathelp='bat --plain --language=help' help { "$@" --help…”
“Some others that look really clean: bat: tldr: fzf:”
“There are so many to list that I'll skip the more obvious ones (they're well represented in the comments) and pick a few that I've been enjoying a lot lately: Netflix-Skunkworks/go-jira - Jira interface written in Go that is incredibly flexible. bat - cat with code highligh…”
“httpie is the nonstandard command I use the most I think. Syntax highlighting for everything that comes down the pipe is pretty awesome. I'm also a sucker for bat which I just found out about through this thread. My zshrc…”
“Just about every Rust cli app written by sharkdp: For viewing csv's as tabular, paged data from the terminal, check out VisiData (python)…”
“Bat v0.26.0 (149 points)”
“Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting (191 points)”
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