sharkdp/bat

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A cat(1) clone with wings.

Stars: 60.5k
Forks: 2k
Open beginner issues: 7
Indexed issues: 330
Avg merge: 20h 17m
Merged PRs (30d): 8

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 4, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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330 open issues indexed

Font color not readable in light mode Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

sharkdp/bat#4005 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
displaying latex maths in a readable way Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

sharkdp/bat#4004 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
[fish] Completion breaks under subshell completion evaluation: "command $bat --list-languages": command is empty Open

bug shell completions

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

sharkdp/bat#3909 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Add RPM Spec Syntax Open

syntax-request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

sharkdp/bat#3905 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Reload current file via keybinding and optional auto-reload Open

feature-request pager-related

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

sharkdp/bat#3896 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Adding non-builtin support for a new language Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

sharkdp/bat#3893 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Support `-v`, `-e`, and `-t` for `cat` compatibility Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

sharkdp/bat#3887 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Recursive custom syntax definition can crash MacOS due to OOM Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

sharkdp/bat#3878 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Consider honoring XDG_CONFIG_HOME on Windows (related to #3000) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

sharkdp/bat#3854 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 20, 2026
bat panics (capacity overflow) on a huge `--line-range` offset-from-end Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

sharkdp/bat#3845 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 17, 2026
bat panics (capacity overflow) on `--terminal-width 1` wrapping a double-width char with a background Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

sharkdp/bat#3844 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Several relative links are broken in translated READMEs under `doc/` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

sharkdp/bat#3839 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
pwsh: paging mode colors don't work Open

bug pager-related

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

sharkdp/bat#3833 · Opened Jul 8, 2026
Seeking to the end of a file is unreasonably slow Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

sharkdp/bat#3831 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 6, 2026
Swift: protocol method declarations lose highlighting after the first func Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

sharkdp/bat#3826 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 3, 2026
A `syntax-delimiter` option to reset the syntax highlighting state Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

sharkdp/bat#3811 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 25, 2026
Add support for Djot Open

syntax-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

sharkdp/bat#3810 · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Add support for Device Tree Source (dts) files Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

sharkdp/bat#3805 · Opened Jun 17, 2026
"bat cache --help" exists with 1 instead of 0 Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

sharkdp/bat#3798 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2026
Syntax request: JSON5 Open

syntax-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

sharkdp/bat#3797 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 10, 2026
Offer: GitHub Actions CI acceleration experiment with Incredibuild runners Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

sharkdp/bat#3795 · Opened Jun 8, 2026
Deprecate `--style=auto` in favour of `--decorations=auto` Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

sharkdp/bat#3752 · Opened May 17, 2026
Highlight CSV values Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

sharkdp/bat#3740 · 2 comments · Opened May 13, 2026
`bat --wrap=never` breaks `less --quit-if-one-screen` Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

sharkdp/bat#3738 · 2 comments · Opened May 12, 2026
Doc inconsistency among several README.md Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

sharkdp/bat#3730 · Opened May 7, 2026
Man pages displaying bold reset code 22m Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

sharkdp/bat#3724 · 15 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 5, 2026
Add support for TOON Open

syntax-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

sharkdp/bat#3720 · 1 comment · Opened May 2, 2026
`--decorations=auto` shows decorations when piped if `--color=always` Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

sharkdp/bat#3710 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Please consider removing the title bar Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

sharkdp/bat#3696 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 23, 2026
[Haskell] Haskell highlighting: Operator misinterpreted as comment Open

bug syntax-highlighting upstream-error

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

sharkdp/bat#3694 · Opened Apr 20, 2026
`--no-paging` seems to still imply wrapping but only when output is piped Open

bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

sharkdp/bat#3660 · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 31, 2026
[Haskell] Haskell highlighting: explicitly importing recursive datatype + constructor Open

bug syntax-highlighting upstream-error

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

sharkdp/bat#3658 · Opened Mar 28, 2026
Incorrect syntax highlighting of Bash here-strings Open

bug syntect-features-required upstream-error

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

sharkdp/bat#3648 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 21, 2026
`--theme auto` results in the fallback to the default theme Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

sharkdp/bat#3641 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 20, 2026
Add a docker image Open

feature-request packaging/tooling

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

sharkdp/bat#3633 · Opened Mar 17, 2026
Dependency bincode is unmaintained and flagged by RUSTSEC-2025-0141 Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

sharkdp/bat#3582 · Opened Feb 9, 2026
Help text does not respect custom theme Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

sharkdp/bat#3559 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 28, 2026
bat to handle dos newline Open

feature-request waiting-on-author

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

sharkdp/bat#3556 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 21, 2026
C23 digit separators are not supported Open

bug syntax-highlighting upstream-error

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

sharkdp/bat#3553 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 16, 2026
style background color ignored Open

bug syntax-highlighting themes

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

sharkdp/bat#3551 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 9, 2026
EJS Syntax Support Open

syntax-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

sharkdp/bat#3515 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 4, 2025
Highlighting --help messages incompatibility with sdkman and zsh Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

sharkdp/bat#3486 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 15, 2025
Add `riscv64gc-unknown-linux-gnu` and `riscv64gc-unknown-linux-musl` target on binary Open

feature-request packaging/tooling

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

sharkdp/bat#3463 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 30, 2025
mouse wheel scrolling Open

pager-related

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

sharkdp/bat#3462 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 29, 2025
more faithful monokai theme Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

sharkdp/bat#3461 · Opened Oct 29, 2025
preserve hard tabs Open

pager-related

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

sharkdp/bat#3460 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 29, 2025
Exits abnormally when reaching end of file Open

bug pager-related

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

sharkdp/bat#3458 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 29, 2025
`sidebar` style component Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

sharkdp/bat#3454 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 24, 2025
ctrl-c still exits less, even when bat isn't passing `--quit-on-intr` Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

sharkdp/bat#3444 · 18 comments · Opened Oct 19, 2025
bat fzf integration does not render correct color themes Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

sharkdp/bat#3433 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 12, 2025

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