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title: "💭 sharkdp/bat: A cat clone with wings."
description: "!https://github.com/sharkdp/bat"
date: 2023-08-21
published: true
tags:
  - linux
  - cli
  - thought
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Bat is my favorite pager, its the one for me that seems to just work more than the rest. colors, syntax highlighting, line numbers search, it just feels the most natural.

!!! note

    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
    about someone else's content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count=2 data-reading-time=3 data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a>