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# bat
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[](https://travis-ci.org/sharkdp/bat)
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[](https://crates.io/crates/bat)
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2018-04-30 12:10:50 +01:00
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*A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.*
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2018-04-22 14:30:28 +01:00
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## Features
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### Syntax highlighting
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`bat` supports a large number of programming and markup languages (see below):
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### Git integration
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`bat` communicates with `git` to show modifications with respect to the index (see left side bar):
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## Installation
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2018-04-25 23:02:53 +01:00
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Check out the [Release page](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/releases) for binary builds and Debian packages.
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2018-04-30 14:40:51 +01:00
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### From source
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If you want to build to compile `bat` from source, you need Rust 1.22 or higher.
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Make sure that you have the devel-version of libopenssl installed (see instructions
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[here](https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl)). You can then use `cargo` to build everything:
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``` bash
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cargo install bat
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```
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