Juan Manuel Allo RonTip: Syntax Highlighting with BAT
By Juan Manuel Allo Ron on May 7, 2020
Terminal command cat is a standard tool to print file contents to the console. I use it all the time but recently I found bat and it changed my life!
bat will also print file contents but provides syntax highlighting. If you use Homebrew it is super easy to install:
brew install batHere is an example of how the output will look like compared to cat:
Enjoy!!
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