Open awvalenti opened 1 month ago
Just a small tip: although this isn't supported right now, bat -A
/--show-all
can be used to achieve something similar.
The -A
option will replace invisible characters with symbols like ␛
and ␊
, and Unicode characters will be represented in escape sequence notation (e.g. \u{2500}
) instead of being printed directly.
Basically,
cat
is an unsafe way to display text.cat -v
is safer.According to README, I believe bat doesn't implement this security feature. Unlike cat, bat is only used for human-readable output. For that reason, this may be a good feature. Possibly it could simply replace stuff like
<Esc>x
with^[x
.Details: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/780938/is-it-still-unsafe-to-cat-an-arbitrary-file