[TOOL_PROFILE]
bat
Syntax-highlighted cat replacement for reading files.
file-viewer lang: all
[USE_WHEN]ALLOW
- ✓ Read source files with line numbers and syntax highlighting
[AVOID_WHEN]BLOCK
- ✕ Output must be plain machine-readable text
[GUARDRAILS]MANDATORY
- ⚠ Disable decorations when piping output into another parser.
[DETAILS]RAW_META
- Binary
- bat
- Aliases
- batcat
- Effects
- read_files
- Documentation
- https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#readme
[SIMILAR_TOOLS]03