Assuming perfect memory and you never make typos they are exactly the same. For most installs. Or distros. Probably.
You don't need to memorize
alias bat='f(){ cat "$1" | highlight --force -O xterm256 | less -SRNI; }; f'
For all the other issues people have pointed out, this assumes you have `highlight` installed.
As opposed to having bat installed?
> Assuming perfect memory and you never make typos they are exactly the same.
You can make an alias.
> For most installs. Or distros. Probably.
Comparing https://repology.org/project/bat-cat/packages vs https://repology.org/project/highlight/packages appears to show them with approximately equal availability. (Unless you're trying some other point, in which case I don't follow.)
You don't need to memorize
alias bat='f(){ cat "$1" | highlight --force -O xterm256 | less -SRNI; }; f'
For all the other issues people have pointed out, this assumes you have `highlight` installed.
As opposed to having bat installed?
> Assuming perfect memory and you never make typos they are exactly the same.
You can make an alias.
> For most installs. Or distros. Probably.
Comparing https://repology.org/project/bat-cat/packages vs https://repology.org/project/highlight/packages appears to show them with approximately equal availability. (Unless you're trying some other point, in which case I don't follow.)