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Is there a way to run bat with -f (similar to tail -f) to follow a file ? #3065

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mxaddict opened this issue Aug 9, 2024 · 1 comment

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mxaddict commented Aug 9, 2024

Is there a way to run bat with -f (similar to tail -f) to follow a file ?

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Alessandro201 commented Aug 9, 2024

As far as I'm aware it does not have an option to do it itself, however you can combine it with tail -f.
From the README:

bat can be combined with tail -f to continuously monitor a given file with syntax highlighting.
tail -f /var/log/pacman.log | bat --paging=never -l log
Note that we have to switch off paging in order for this to work. We have also specified the syntax explicitly (-l log), as it can not be auto-detected in this case.

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