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 🙂
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 ;)
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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...
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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, ... ;)
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).
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 🙂
It's kind of true though. Remoting into random machines is why I learned to use vi/vim and not alias commands
It certainly is how I've learned this hate certain default settings on both windows and Mac
Aliases and custom function are great. They can really speed up your workflow.
@@brandon_wallace Except when you are remoting into some machines that don't have your custom edits. . .
Wrap SSH in a way that can transmit a copy of your aliases to the remote system. Problem solved!
Nice tool, but I think this is more of a replacement to "less" than cat.
Thanks for the tip!
I remember from my Linux books when they said "less is more"
With bat you no longer need less or cat.
That really is awesome, and I hadn't heard of it even though I've been using linux for decades. Thanks!
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".
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 ;)
Bat is an awesome tool. Loving it 😊
perfect!
many additional information during the video. Especially important for Linux beginners.
Thanks!
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.
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.
You always could aliasing cat to bat 😉
@@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
Thanks!
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.
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.
Seriously cool tool! Would love to see this built in to main Distro's
"bat" can replace "cat" permanently.
BTW, cat will show line numbers too: cat -n
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. ❤
Shall install that tomorrow, very useful. Thank you.
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.
bat ... good to know. Thanks, Jay!
Great content as always! 🤘
This looks rather useful, thx
WOw! simply fanastic tool! Love!
"What? Spell bolour with the letter K? Kolour? Oh, what a silly bunt!"
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.
Bro, where do you get the hexagon stickers?
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.
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?
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...
Is that the Flux capacitor in the background?
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.
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.
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?
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.
Hi, I am trying to install bat on raspberry pi 3 but see an error E: Unable to locate package bat
Executing sudo batcat /var/log/syslog on my Raspberry Pi only shows line numbers with empty lines.
Thank you for your video
Is there a benefit to running bat instead of opening the file in vim?
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.
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, ... ;)
@@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.
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).
this program is neat!
Bat the dos and windows console scripting language?
Great video 👍👍
Fun fact: Bruce Wayne loves this command too. Thats how he came up with his alias Batman! 🦇
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!
If you want bat package for any enterprise linux its already in epel ;)
You can use cargo to install it. Just have to add cargo to PATH.
the beard's looking bad ass my man
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!
how is bat different to vim with linting and plugins?
Vim is a text editor. Bat shows you the contents of a file and nothing more.
The cool apps are the ones written in assembler.
What is it git command?
What is it the bashsrc file?
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.
How's that different from a `git diff`?
I would use wget instead of curl to download the file (archive).
Why, what's the benefit of using wget?
That's very cool, thanks. However, I installed the "bat" command on my debian distro but the syntax is not in colours!
That’s because you’re using a monochrome monitor 👍
Awesome!
Cheers Mate
You could use Nala (instead APT) looks nicer 🙂
Have to get me some flying mamal, too...
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.
there is something wrong with the video/audio sync in your video.
It's more then color version of: less command
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.
The system is in crisis, someone needs to call the bat comMANd
Lol you can use nano instead of this ... Whats the use of batcat ?
You can even use vim
It looks like less command but in better looks
Totally agree, it's not a replacement for cat...it should have been called bless "Better less".
Cat is cool
Bat id better
ChatGpt is the phat Cat in the Hat with a matte bat chasing after rats
And behaves as the Less command does - press F to make it behave like tail -f.
Look like bat do what more / less do rather than cat... cool anyway.
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.
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.
same way ripgrep should replaced grep.
bat is better than cat and less.
Looks like less command on steroids.
For it looks like a more less command than cat
fail, cat -n will give you line numbers, duh.
Bonbatonate
Sudo batcat thisvideo
Why wouldn't I just create a link to in
/usr/bin/bat
pointing to /usr/bin/batcat
Instead of the alias?
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.