Language formatting

[gomeology]

Is it possible to have the output formatted in a more readable format. example in the images below

[keith-hall]

Thanks for the request. I personally think reformatting is out of scope for bat, partially because its billed as a cat replacement with syntax highlighting and other optional features. Thus it typically shows files exactly as they appear on disk, just with color and line numbers etc.

I don't know of any way to easily pretty print any type of file, (which would thus be another thing to maintain) but for your concrete use case you could use jq and pipe the output into bat. You could also make a shell alias if its something you want to do often / by default :)

[Enselic]

Just wanted to chime in with a JSON formatting tip. I personally prefer python3 -m json.tool over tools such as e.g. jq since the former is usually installed by default on most systems. Combined with bat it would look like this (with colors in a real terminal, of course):

% echo '{"format":"me", "please": true}' | python3 -m json.tool | bat -l json
───────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       │ STDIN
───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   1   │ {
   2   │     "format": "me",
   3   │     "please": true
   4   │ }
───────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────

[sharkdp]

Please check out prettybat in https://github.com/eth-p/bat-extras