Awesome Linux Tools: The bat Command

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The bat command is a clone of the cat command, but with wings! This tool can be used similarly as the cat command, but it includes additional features such as syntax highlighting, line numbers, and more! In this video, you'll see the bat command in action.
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00:00 - Intro
01:01 - Set up your very own Linux server with Linode (sponsor)
02:07 - Comparing output from the cat command versus the bat command
04:44 - Installing bat on Ubuntu systems (batcat)
05:57 - Installing bat on Fedora
07:38 - Installing bat on enterprise Linux distributions
11:22 - Setting up an alias on Ubuntu so you can type "bat" instead of "batcat"
13:04 - Example of using the bat command to view a Python script
14:36 - Disabling paging while using the bat command
15:34 - Revealing non-printable characters with the bat command
16:23 - Using the bat command to view changes in version control
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@dennisolsson3119 Год назад

Nice tool, but I think this is more of a replacement to "less" than cat. Thanks for the tip!

@Mikesco3 Год назад

I remember from my Linux books when they said "less is more"

@brandon_wallace Год назад

With bat you no longer need less or cat.

@asdf51501 Год назад

Nice! I love stuff like this, where we have linux videos that go beyond "which distro should I use and how should I install and theme it".

@Ranblv Год назад

when I did the RHCE course the instructor kept telling us to try to avoid aliases and custom commands cause they will spoil us and when we connect to clients we won't have them. I lasted that way for one year 🙂

@hammerheadcorvette4 Год назад

It's kind of true though. Remoting into random machines is why I learned to use vi/vim and not alias commands

@SuperWolfkin Год назад

It certainly is how I've learned this hate certain default settings on both windows and Mac

@brandon_wallace Год назад

Aliases and custom function are great. They can really speed up your workflow.

@hammerheadcorvette4 Год назад

@@brandon_wallace Except when you are remoting into some machines that don't have your custom edits. . .

@rainmannoodles Год назад

Wrap SSH in a way that can transmit a copy of your aliases to the remote system. Problem solved!

@rantalbott6963 Год назад

That really is awesome, and I hadn't heard of it even though I've been using linux for decades. Thanks!

@Crackalacking_Z Год назад

Part of the charm of these videos is to witness the office evolving a little bit in the background with every new video, the command is neat too, I guess ;)

@send2gl Год назад

Shall install that tomorrow, very useful. Thank you.

@georgegeorge1721 Год назад

perfect! many additional information during the video. Especially important for Linux beginners. Thanks!

@gbo-gr-cy Год назад

Great content as always! 🤘

@treyquattro Год назад

BTW, cat will show line numbers too: cat -n

@Bathi666 Год назад

Bat is an awesome tool. Loving it 😊

@cmdr.glenel9274 Год назад

bat command seems like improvement of cat, it's probably what you are use to. I use vim most of time, it's very handy when you want to edit something without starting other application to do so.

@SlideRSB Год назад

At the beginning of the video, you mentioned "line numbers" as one of the features of bat that cat doesn't do. FYI, the "-n" flag for cat will print line numbers.

@aaronperl Год назад

I always forget about the bat command, even after I install it. And then I get reminded of it again and rediscover how awesome it is all over again.

@airbeast5671 Год назад

You always could aliasing cat to bat 😉

@aaronperl Год назад

@@airbeast5671 yeah, I'll probably do that... I think I always assumed there was some reason the executable wasn't called bat, so I figured an alias would interfere somehow.... But since Jay suggested it, I assume there won't be a problem

@jojobobbubble5688 Год назад

Seriously cool tool! Would love to see this built in to main Distro's

@brandon_wallace Год назад

"bat" can replace "cat" permanently.

@tgirard123 Год назад

FANTASTIC!!!! I love how bat colorizes and allows the arrow keys. This kinda reminds me of why I switched from 'apt' to 'nala'. I would love to see your opinion on nala and if you liked it maybe a video. I just think that adding color, organization and a little more visual cuing to the command line will do nothing but help young players to get comfortable faster.

@donnie3897 Год назад

WOw! simply fanastic tool! Love!

@theindependentlinuxuser Год назад

Thanks jay for that idea. I been using bat on my Sparky Linux Semi-rolling KDE distro. Loving Debian testing especially Sparky Linux Semi-rolling. And I follow all the instructions that you told us in the video. It works just fine. If ever try reviewing Debian testing or Sparky Linux Semi-Rolling. People like Semi-Rolling Debian release distro including Sparky Linux.

@Verzox Год назад

I'll write you a comment just for the algorithm. this is amazing. already implemented with alias, theme and all. can't wait to be hella surprised when using cat next time bc I'm most likely gonna forget about all this until then.

@TheHackysack Год назад

I've loved `bat` ever since the first time I heard about it. It's nearly the first thing I install on new machines. It's just far too convenient. ❤

@leathernluv Год назад

"What? Spell bolour with the letter K? Kolour? Oh, what a silly bunt!"

@pacquetman Год назад

bat ... good to know. Thanks, Jay!

@nezarfadle7715 Год назад

Great video 👍👍

@mathieuberthalay21 Год назад

Thank you for your video

@slembcke Год назад

Ahh! I found bat a while back when you had to install it using Rust's "cargo" package manager. That's great it has distro packages now. :D I didn't know about the git integration either, that's awesome! Other handy Rust tools I use on occasion include exa (ls replacement), hexyl (hex viewer), and miu (CLI image previews).

@adjusted-bunny Год назад

Awesome!

@manum8170 Год назад

This looks rather useful, thx

@tmendoza6 Год назад

Thanks!

@refaiabdeen5943 Год назад

Cheers Mate

@MatthewKressel Год назад

Very cool command. Does bat share the same command line parameters as cat, so that aliasing is possible? I wonder, would aliasing cat to bat break scripts that rely on the original cat?

@rantalbott6963 Год назад

Yes, it would. It's probably possible to avoid breakage if you aliased it with parameters, like the way "ll" is aliased to "ls -l", but why? It might make sense to alias "less" to it, since they're similar.

@fabiopetrillo Год назад

From chatGPT "Is Rust language a good alternative to write new GNU tools, replacing the current ones? Yes, Rust is a good alternative to write new GNU tools. It offers benefits such as memory safety, improved performance, and a modern syntax that can make it easier to maintain and extend existing tools. However, it ultimately depends on the specific use case and the preferences of the development team, as some projects may still prefer to use C or other languages." Interesting...

@6bOemH2gKz Год назад

this program is neat!

@shawnlewis389 Год назад

Bro, where do you get the hexagon stickers?

@rollinkendal8130 Год назад

The cool apps are the ones written in assembler.

@aronwomack359 Год назад

You can use cargo to install it. Just have to add cargo to PATH.

@thingsiplay Год назад

Is that the Flux capacitor in the background?

@demanuDJ Год назад

If you want bat package for any enterprise linux its already in epel ;)

@mrcvry Год назад

Fun fact: Bruce Wayne loves this command too. Thats how he came up with his alias Batman! 🦇

@hashkeeper Год назад

the beard's looking bad ass my man

@davefaulkner6302 Год назад

Does not work on an updated Linux Mint 20. Decorations are there but no text. Is this open source? Note that I did not reboot after the install.

Год назад

You could use Nala (instead APT) looks nicer 🙂

@rklauco Год назад

Have to get me some flying mamal, too...

@grahammccann8554 Год назад

Hi, I am trying to install bat on raspberry pi 3 but see an error E: Unable to locate package bat

@Ollital Год назад

Executing sudo batcat /var/log/syslog on my Raspberry Pi only shows line numbers with empty lines.

@SiBex_ovh Год назад

It's more then color version of: less command

@ubeaut Год назад

I installed it on Debian Bullseye and I can't get the line numbers to appear. -n doesn't work.🤕 What I have noticed is I did a copy and and paste and noticed the line numbers ARE there I just can't see them on the terminal. If I look really closely I can JUST see them. Any ideas?

@krisbrightspirals Год назад

Is there a benefit to running bat instead of opening the file in vim?

@rantalbott6963 Год назад

Well, there's not needing to learn vim. 😎 You'd be happier in vim because you could use the searching and navigating, but I wouldn't because I don't know them.

@unbekannter_Nutzer Год назад

Yes, you needn't exit vim (which many people struggle to do ;) ), you can't change the content by accident, ... - there are drawbacks too, like you need to exit the pager, if the content is longer than a screen length, you can't change the content of the file, ... ;)

@LarixusSnydes Год назад

@@unbekannter_Nutzer If you are worried about changing the file, just use view instead. It's essentially vim in read-only mode. I use it all the time.

@medes26 Год назад

That's very cool, thanks. However, I installed the "bat" command on my debian distro but the syntax is not in colours!

@jasonlee3247 Год назад

That’s because you’re using a monochrome monitor 👍

@peterjansen4826 Год назад

I would use wget instead of curl to download the file (archive).

@unbekannter_Nutzer Год назад

Why, what's the benefit of using wget?

@jakemuff9407 Год назад

how is bat different to vim with linting and plugins?

@brandon_wallace Год назад

Vim is a text editor. Bat shows you the contents of a file and nothing more.

@try-that Год назад

I installed bat via pop_os using apt install bat, but when you come to run it you need to use 'batcat' :( Which seems really stupid!

@yibowei9636 Год назад

How's that different from a `git diff`?

@replikvltyoutube3727 Год назад

Bat the dos and windows console scripting language?

@user-bb6qv5vi7l Год назад

What is it git command?

@dimasnaresh8268 Год назад

It looks like less command but in better looks

@PrymalInstynct Год назад

Totally agree, it's not a replacement for cat...it should have been called bless "Better less".

@rubberduckey5630 Год назад

The system is in crisis, someone needs to call the bat comMANd

@user-bb6qv5vi7l Год назад

What is it the bashsrc file?

@unbekannter_Nutzer Год назад

It's the .bashrc file (note the leading dot, which hides the file for some tools/setting/commands) and it's your personal configuration file for the bash.

@joshuapettus6973 Год назад

Not sure I see the point. The power of cat is to be used with piping output from one or multiple files to other commands, and then format that output how you need for some function or another. Adding in line numbers kinda messes up the input a bit. Anyway if I ever needed to open and read a file I use vim, which can do a heck of a lot more than what batcat is offering.

@clintbowen1305 Год назад

Yet another example of someone creating something new, which doesn't do much of anything that didn't already exist. "But this was written in rust"! Line numbers, cat. Paging, less + Lines added, diff Total fail as a replacement for cat, adding line numbers and colors blows up the data stream. If you want paging use less, the benefit of cat is it doesn't page - use the right tool for a given need. Not sure I've ever needed line numbers when parsing a log file, more interested in searching for the issue, so use grep, or awk.

@LukeKendall-author Год назад

It's sad to see such a total misunderstanding of the fundamental Unix philosophy. If you want syntax highlighting, use a tool that does that (vim maybe, or bat, or something that would also allow you to convert it to a pdf), but don't consider it a replacement for cat.

@mukto2004 Год назад

For it looks like a more less command than cat

@WHORTH-TheUglyDucklingOfFORTH Год назад

Look like bat do what more / less do rather than cat... cool anyway.

@user56 Год назад

there is something wrong with the video/audio sync in your video.

@Richard-ck7sr Год назад

And behaves as the Less command does - press F to make it behave like tail -f.

@oraz. Год назад

Bat doesn't work. It crops the output even after resizing the terminal. The trend of saying "written in rust" is a red flag it seems.

@neon_Nomad Год назад

Cat is cool Bat id better ChatGpt is the phat Cat in the Hat with a matte bat chasing after rats

@sergiuoanes4635 Год назад

same way ripgrep should replaced grep.

@LexiLominite Год назад

Lol you can use nano instead of this ... Whats the use of batcat ?

@LexiLominite Год назад

You can even use vim

@brandon_wallace Год назад

bat is better than cat and less.

@shykitten55 Год назад

Only playing "Devil's advocate" here, but `cat` is also handy that you can enter `tac` (`cat backwards) and get a reverse output too. But `bat` does look handy. Oh, and following on from my `cat` mention: It would be funny/punny if rather than calling it `bat` it was called `dog`. Ok, sorry. Poor effort at humor.

@antoniomanciolini2752 Год назад

And combining your statements (and to add another poor attempt at humor): to get reverse output with the proposed "dog", you would have the "god" command to do everything backwards, which seems legit.

@baptizeishere Год назад

Looks like less command on steroids.

@eddieoconnor4466 Год назад

Awesome vid Jay1.....but I have one of those "Totally-Unreleated-To-The-Video-Per-Se" questions. see....I have seen countless videos one after the other stating how "lightning fast" Arch Linux is right?...but when you went to install the bat application on AlmaLinux it literally took less than a few seconds...so exactly how much "faster" can Arch possibly be?...or am I missing something? Me and a few of the Linux faithful in my neighborhood are curious... I Use Fedora BTW. LoL!

@michaelplaczek9385 Год назад

Bonbatonate

@gumby2241 Год назад

fail, cat -n will give you line numbers, duh.

@symbioticparasite6268 Год назад

Sudo batcat thisvideo

@Mikesco3 Год назад

Why wouldn't I just create a link to in /usr/bin/bat pointing to /usr/bin/batcat Instead of the alias?

@unbekannter_Nutzer Год назад

a) You can add your favorite flags (like --pager=NEVER, or whatever it was) to an alias. b) It's more easy to carry your .bashrc-file with you on an USB-stick, than to replicate links on different systems.