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A cat(1) clone with wings.
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Colorized output for syslog files? #3111

Open thomas-j-adaptiva opened 1 month ago

thomas-j-adaptiva commented 1 month ago

Exactly as the title says. Tested on RHEL and Ubuntu, I don't see syslogs colorized.

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keith-hall commented 1 month ago

perhaps we don't have a syntax mapping by default for /var/log/dmesg. Try bat -l syslog /var/log/dmesg and see how that looks :)

thomas-j-adaptiva commented 1 month ago

That works splendidly, thank you! Sorry about that!

Also a small bug, if you do a bat -l /var/log/dmesg with no option for the -l, it just hangs.

Thank you!

keith-hall commented 1 month ago

Also a small bug, if you do a bat -l /var/log/dmesg with no option for the -l, it just hangs.

that's not entirely a bug :) bat is designed to behave like cat whereby if you don't specify a filename, it reads from stdin. So it is waiting for stdin to end.