No, this post isn't about .bat files.
Continuing on this little series of tooling improvements, the next stop is Bat, an improvement to the good old cat utility, used for displaying files.
cat is really light and efficient and just takes either a file or stdin, and writes that to the screen.
Bat is a bit smarter. For one, if I try print a binary file, it doesn't do that by default, which always risks stuffing up my terminal.
It also has syntax highlighting for some file formats, and can integrate with git to show you changes.
Bat is one of those tools that I am trying to add to my muscle memory instead of cat in most cases. It is available for most (if not all) desktop platforms.
