vbat

Korean

Enhanced wrapper for bat that adds wildcard support and flexible encoding handling for viewing text files across platforms.

Supported entrypoints

• vbat.bat — Windows (CMD) launcher
• vbat.sh — POSIX shell script (Linux/macOS)

Requirements

• bat (shorthand pager) must be installed and available on PATH.
  • A cat(1) clone with wings. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

Quick usage

• Windows (CMD):
  • vbat.bat myfile.txt
• Bash (Linux/macOS):
  • ./vbat.sh myfile.txt

Options

• --encoding=VALUE or -e VALUE — override encoding for files (e.g. UTF-8, CP949, EUC-KR).
• -h or --help — show usage help.

.encoding sidecar files Each target text file may have a sidecar file named <filename>.encoding that contains a line like:

encoding=UTF8

The scripts will prefer an explicit --encoding argument, then a .encoding sidecar, and finally fall back to a sensible default (PowerShell/CMD variants default to CP949; the shell script defaults to UTF-8).

Examples

• Force UTF-8 for a single file:
  • vbat.sh myfile.txt --encoding=UTF-8
• Use short flag:
  • vbat.bat myfile.txt -e CP949