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# Specify The Language For A File With Bat
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The [`bat`](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) utility is able to correctly
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infer the language of most files it prints based on the file extension. In
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some cases, you may want to specify a language other than the one it
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guesses.
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For instance, here is a React file printed with `bat`:
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The `jsx` syntax doesn't look great because of the inferred language
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highlighting doesn't account for it. We can get better results by telling
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`bat` that the file should be parsed as `JavaScript (Babel)`.
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By including `--language=jsx` as a flag, `bat` uses a different language
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parser and the output is now what I'm looking for.
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