gantsign.bat

Ansible Role: bat

This role is for downloading and installing bat, which is a better alternative to cat.

Requirements

You need Ansible Core version 2.12 or higher.
It works on Linux distributions like:
- Debian Family
  - Debian:
    - Buster (10)
    - Bullseye (11)
    - Bookworm (12)
  - Ubuntu:
    - Bionic (18.04)
    - Focal (20.04)
    - Jammy (22.04)
  - Note: Other versions may work, but we haven't tested them.

Role Variables

Here are some variables that you can change (default values are shown below):

# Version of bat to install
bat_version: '0.23.0'

# The SHA256 hash of the bat package
bat_redis_sha256sum: '56b3d05e11c6d473643766c612d10c2d3de56ff2fcd14b3d82d86f5843307ced'

# Directory for storing downloaded files for bat
bat_download_dir: "{{ x_ansible_download_dir | default(ansible_env.HOME + '/.ansible/tmp/downloads') }}"

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.bat

Tab Completion for Zsh

Using Ansible

To enable Zsh support for bat, it's best to use the gantsign.antigen role (you need to set this up for each user).

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.hub

    - role: gantsign.antigen
      users:
        - username: example
          antigen_bundles:
            - name: bat
              url: gantsign/zsh-plugins
              location: bat