# sharkdp/bat

> A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration: displays files in the terminal with colors, line numbers and change markers.

- Magnitude: 2.5 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 61,250 total · +13 stars measured 2026-11-14, 00:09–11:16 UTC, ≈ 26 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2018-04-21 · Last push: 2026-11-10
- GitHub: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/sharkdp/bat

## Useful for

- Replace cat with bat to view files with syntax highlighting
- Use bat as an fzf previewer when browsing files
- Highlight git diff and git show output through bat

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-14 (UTC), 00:09–11:16: 61237 → 61250 stars (+13). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +26 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @NotAFlightRisk (1,036 followers), @millette (310 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2,312
- Issues and pull requests: 3,971
- Watchers: 253
- Average over the last week: 22 per day
- Usual pace: 21 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v0.26.1 (2025-12-02)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-16 … 2026-11-14: 14, 16, 10, 17, 28, 14, 9, 20, 12, 20, 20, 20, 22, 13, 13, 16, 20, 21, 26, 27, 22, 40, 19, 23, 21, 27, 16, 14, 23, 13

## Magnitude by day, last 9 days

11-06 3.7, 11-07 4.7, 11-08 2.6, 11-09 2.2, 11-10 2.5, 11-11 2.8, 11-12 2.9, 11-13 2.6, 11-14 2.5

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-14 11:22 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.