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# Specify The Language For A File With Bat
The `bat` utility is able to correctly infer the language of most files it
prints based on the file extension. In some cases, you may want to specify a
language other than the one it guesses.
For instance, here is a React file printed with `bat`:
![bat with no CLI args](https://i.imgur.com/Jk0L6tB.png)
The `jsx` syntax doesn't look great because of the inferred language
highlighting doesn't account for it. We can get better results by telling
`bat` that the file should be parsed as `JavaScript (Babel)`.
![bat with language specified](https://i.imgur.com/yB1rYW4.png)
By including `--language=jsx` as a flag, `bat` uses a different language
parser and the output is now what I'm looking for.