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		soraminazuki 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting bat isn't really a rewrite though. It complements cat and less rather than replace them, and it even uses less. Or maybe it's a rewrite of lesspipe.sh?

3836293648 3 months ago [–]

Bat just pipes itself into less, it doesn't peimplement any paging

soraminazuki 3 months ago | [–]

lesspipe.sh isn't a pager but a preprocessor for less that does syntax highlighting among other things.

https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe

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