Bat: Receive file paths from stdin

[connorskees]

Hello,

I'm looking to do something like which foo | bat --paths-from-stdin, which would print the contents of the file foo in my $PATH. Is that currently possible with bat? If not, would it be possible to implement something like that?

More generically, it would be nice to be able to do something like

bat file_of_paths | bat --paths-from-stdin

and have the content of each file in file_of_paths printed.

[eth-p]

I believe the xargs command might be able to help with that!

xargs bat < file_of_paths

Example:

 ~/ which bat | xargs bat
───────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       │ File: /Users/eth-p/.local/bin/bat
───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   1   │ #!/usr/bin/env bash
   2   │ ARGS=()
   3   │ case "$(defaults read -globalDomain AppleInterfaceStyle 2>/dev/null ||
       │ echo "Light")" in
   4   │     Light)  ARGS+=(--theme OneHalfLight) ;;
   5   │     Dark|*) : ;;
   6   │ esac
   7   │ ARGS+=("$@")
   8   │
   9   │ exec /usr/local/bin/bat "${ARGS[@]}"
  10   │
───────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

[connorskees]

@eth-p ah thank you! I need a solution for Windows as well (where foo | bat), but I think I can just use the batch script here https://superuser.com/questions/652492/windows-equivalent-to-xargs.