A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands. - GitHub - ibraheemdev/modern-unix: A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.
If you pipe bat to another command it will act like cat so you can use it as a drop-in replacement and have it print things nicely when you want to view text and otherwise work as a normal commandline tool.
Most of these are good but
catisn’t just about looking at text.I replaced cat with bat and you honestly can’t make me go back.
If you pipe
batto another command it will act like cat so you can use it as a drop-in replacement and have it print things nicely when you want to view text and otherwise work as a normal commandline tool.In my experience it was much slower, which is unfortunate. I still use
bat, but that alias got removed pretty quickly.