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							| @@ -288,6 +288,26 @@ well as in newer versions of bash. On earlier versions of Windows, you can use | |||||||
| don’t have any other pagers installed, you can disable paging entirely by passing `--paging=never` | don’t have any other pagers installed, you can disable paging entirely by passing `--paging=never` | ||||||
| or by setting `BAT_PAGER` to an empty string. | or by setting `BAT_PAGER` to an empty string. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | ### Cygwin | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | `bat` on Windows does not natively support Cygwin's unix-style paths (`/cygdrive/*`). When passed an absolute cygwin path as an argument, `bat` will encounter the following error: `The system cannot find the path specified. (os error 3)`  | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | This can be solved by creating a wrapper or adding the following function to your `.bash_profile` file: | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | ```shell | ||||||
|  | bat() { | ||||||
|  |     local index | ||||||
|  |     local args=("$@") | ||||||
|  |     for index in $(seq 0 ${#args[@]}) ; do | ||||||
|  |         case "${args[index]}" in | ||||||
|  |         -*) continue;; | ||||||
|  |         *)  [ -e "${args[index]}" ] && args[index]="$(cygpath --windows "${args[index]}")";; | ||||||
|  |         esac | ||||||
|  |     done | ||||||
|  |     command bat "${args[@]}" | ||||||
|  | } | ||||||
|  | ``` | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
| ## Troubleshooting | ## Troubleshooting | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
| ### Terminals & colors | ### Terminals & colors | ||||||
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