Bat Cat

I learned of bat as a replacement of cat recently and finally decided to update my personal aliases with cat=bat. However, after installing bat with sudo apt install bat the bat command was missing. I installed it but I didn’t know where it was on my system or why it was seemingly missing.

So thanks to this old StackOverflow post I’ve learned to use dpkg -L <package> to find where bat was installed rather than digging through all possible locations manually. It ended up being installed as batcat instead of simply bat for whatever reason, hence why I couldn’t immediately locate it.