# bat
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*A cat(1) clone with wings.*
## Features
### Syntax highlighting
`bat` supports a large number of programming and markup languages (see below):
![Syntax highlighting example ](https://imgur.com/rGsdnDe.png )
### Git integration
`bat` communicates with `git` to show modifications with respect to the index (see left side bar):
![Git integration example ](https://i.imgur.com/2lSW4RE.png )
## Installation
Check out the [Release page ](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/releases ) for binary builds and Debian packages.
If you want to build to compile `bat` from source, you need Rust 1.22 or higher.
You can then use `cargo` to build everything:
``` bash
cargo install bat
```
### Get themes and syntax highlighting definitions
`bat` uses the excellent [`syntect` ](https://github.com/trishume/syntect/ ) library for syntax highlighting. `syntect` uses Sublime Text language definitions and themes.
To get a big package of languages and a Monokai-variant as a theme, run:
``` bash
mkdir -p ~/.config/bat/themes
cd ~/.config/bat/themes
git clone https://github.com/jonschlinkert/sublime-monokai-extended
ln -s "sublime-monokai-extended/Monokai Extended.tmTheme" Default.tmTheme
mkdir -p ~/.config/bat/syntax
cd ~/.config/bat/syntax
git clone https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/
rm -rf Packages/Markdown
git clone https://github.com/jonschlinkert/sublime-markdown-extended
```