Comment by oneeyedpigeon

> bat it's a useless cat. Cat concatenates files. ANSI colour breaks that.

It's useless as a cat replacement, I agree. The article really shouldn't call it that, although the program's GitHub page does self-describe it as "a cat clone". It's more of a syntax highlighter combined with a git diff viewer (I do have an issue with that; it should be two separate programs, not one).