sharkdp/bat
A cat(1) clone with wings.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #274 of 2,502 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 11%).
No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 304 days ago, with 410 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #18 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 19, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a cat command clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration for enhanced file viewing in the terminal.
- Delivers rich syntax highlighting and Git modification markers directly in terminal output, improving readability over standard cat.
- Use for viewing source code files with syntax highlighting and line numbers in terminal sessions.
- Use for previewing Git-tracked file changes and diffs with inline modification indicators.
- Use for integrating with tools like fzf, ripgrep, or tail to display colorized, paged file content or search results.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+1,027 stars over 86 days across 27 snapshot days; best day +82 on Aug 3.
Forks
3.2K+1.6K
Open issues
535+138
Compared with peers in CLI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Sep 27, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stablyai/orca | 91.6K | +5.8K | 60 | 1 day ago |
| mvschwarz/openrig | 7.4K | +3.9K | 65 | 1 day ago |
| pablostanley/yoinks | 5.9K | +1.4K | 6 | — |
| HKUDS/CLI-Anything | 52.1K | +1.1K | 75 | 110 days ago |
| Nasiko-Labs/nasiko | 9.4K | +875 | 52 | 234 days ago |
| sharkdp/bat | 60.6K | +0 | 75 | 304 days ago |
| Category median | 9.4K | +1.4K | 60 | — |
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