gat

cat alternative written in Go.

• Installation
• Usage
• LICENSE

Installation

Homebrew

$ brew install gat

Homebrew Tap

$ brew install koki-develop/tap/gat

go install

$ go install github.com/koki-develop/gat@latest

Releases

Download the binary from the releases page.

Usage

$ gat --help
cat alternative written in Go.

Usage:
  gat [file]... [flags]

Flags:
  -c, --force-color     force colored output
  -f, --format string   output format (default "terminal256")
  -h, --help            help for gat
  -l, --lang string     language for syntax highlighting
      --list-formats    print a list of supported output formats
      --list-langs      print a list of supported languages for syntax highlighting
      --list-themes     print a list of supported themes with preview
  -p, --pretty          whether to format a content pretty
  -t, --theme string    highlight theme (default "monokai")
  -v, --version         version for gat

-l, --lang

Explicitly set the language for syntax highlighting.
See languages.md for valid languages.

-f, --format

Set the output format ( default: terminal256 ).
See formats.md for valid formats.

-t, --theme

Set the highlight theme ( default: monokai ).
See themes.md for valid thtmes.

-p, --pretty

Format a content pretty.
For unsupported languages, this flag is ignored.

-c, --force-color

gat disables colored output when piped to another program.
Settings the --force-color forces colored output to be enabled.
This is useful, for example, when used in combination with the less -R command.

It is also useful to declare the following function to allow gat to be used with a pager.

function gess() {
  gat --force-color "$@" | less -R
}

Print Image

If your terminal supports Sixel, you can print images.

Supported image formats include:

• JPEG
• PNG
• GIF (animation not supported)

LICENSE

MIT