From fdeb98e8593cc5726cabfec6c3593c183d46c404 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Peter <sharkdp@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 00:33:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add usage examples

---
 README.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5102e8da..7db984b9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,6 +31,31 @@ Oh.. you can also use it to concatenate files :wink:. Whenever
 `bat` detects a non-interactive terminal, it will fall back to printing
 the plain file contents.
 
+## Usage
+
+Display a single file on the terminal
+
+``` bash
+> bat README.md
+```
+
+Display multiple files at once
+
+``` bash
+> bat src/*.rs
+```
+
+Explicitly specify the language
+
+``` bash
+> yaml2json .travis.yml | json_pp | bat -l json
+```
+
+``` bash
+> curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sharkdp/bat/master/src/main.rs | bat -l rs
+```
+
+
 ## Installation
 
 ### From binaries