2020-02-08 15:46:43 +00:00
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title: "Bat: The user friendly cat"
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date: 2020-02-01T06:26:18-05:00
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draft: false
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2022-01-02 19:24:29 +00:00
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tags: [ "Linux" ]
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2020-02-08 15:46:43 +00:00
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---
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`bat` is a more human pleasing replacement of `cat` with the following features:
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- syntax highlighting support
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- git integration
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- automatic paging
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To test it out I wrote a file called `test.py`
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```python
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from collections import Counter
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items = [1,3,1,6,3]
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c = Counter(items)
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print(c[1])
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```
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And here's a screenshot of my terminal session when I called `bat`
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2020-02-16 22:46:18 +00:00
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![image-20200201063050726](/files/images/20200201063050726.png)
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