sharkdp/bat

What is the `"st"` file?

roguh opened this issue · 9 comments

roguh commented

Hello, I couldn't find anything about an st file that bat seems to generate on my laptop. Perhaps it's due to something in my setup. First, I open a file with bat and then I get this message after I try to open another file with bat in the same $PWD:

Warning: "st" exists; Overwrite, Append, Don't log, or Quit?

Feel free to close this issue if it's not a bug or I missed something in the docs.

keith-hall commented

I personally have never seen bat generate a file called st before, nor seen this warning. Happy to try help solve it here though, in case others encounter the same thing in future and find this issue :)

perhaps you can run bat --diagnostics and share the output.

roguh commented

Thank you! I'll keep poking around just in case others need help with this problem. Clever that it generates markdown :)

$ bat --diagnostics

Software version

bat 0.24.0 (fc95468)

Operating system

Linux 6.6.19-1-MANJARO

Command-line

bat --diagnostics

Environment variables

SHELL=/usr/bin/fish
PAGER=most
LESS=most
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_ALL=<not set>
BAT_PAGER=<not set>
BAT_PAGING=<not set>
BAT_CACHE_PATH=<not set>
BAT_CONFIG_PATH=<not set>
BAT_OPTS=<not set>
BAT_STYLE=<not set>
BAT_TABS=<not set>
BAT_THEME=<not set>
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=<not set>
XDG_CACHE_HOME=<not set>
COLORTERM=truecolor
NO_COLOR=<not set>
MANPAGER=most

System Config file

Could not read contents of '/etc/bat/config': No such file or directory (os error 2).

Config file

Could not read contents of '/home/felina/.config/bat/config': No such file or directory (os error 2).

Custom assets metadata

Could not read contents of '/home/felina/.cache/bat/metadata.yaml': No such file or directory (os error 2).

Custom assets

'/home/felina/.cache/bat' not found

Compile time information

  • Profile: release
  • Target triple: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  • Family: unix
  • OS: linux
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Pointer width: 64
  • Endian: little
  • CPU features: fxsr,sse,sse2
  • Host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Less version

> less --version 
less 643 (PCRE2 regular expressions)
Copyright (C) 1984-2023  Mark Nudelman

less comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
For information about the terms of redistribution,
see the file named README in the less distribution.
Home page: https://greenwoodsoftware.com/less
roguh commented

I did try PAGER=less bat ... but got the same error.

roguh commented

I am running the kitty terminal emulator, I'm not sure if that's printed by the diagnostics flag.

keith-hall commented

Does the same thing happen if you invoke most or less on a file directly without bat?

Or using cat and piping into less / most?

roguh commented

Nope. I haven't had time to keep investigating. It might be something unusual in some configuration for other programs, maybe something is inadvertently modifying bat's config.

Mar 08 14:18 
~ $ echo howdy > test.txt

Mar 08 14:18 
~ $ echo howdy2 > test2.txt

Mar 08 14:18 
~ $ cat test.txt | most

Mar 08 14:18 
~ $ cat test2.txt | most

Mar 08 14:18 
~ $ most test.txt

Mar 08 14:18 
~ $ most test2.txt

Mar 08 14:18 
~ $ cat test.txt | less

Mar 08 14:19 
~ $ cat test2.txt | less
roguh commented

I ran bat with strace and still cannot find where this st file is coming from. I see bat opens some files from /etc/ssl, which is odd. I assume that's with the openssl dependency.

4:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
5:fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=194103, ...}) = 0
8:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/libgit2.so.1.7", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
10:fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1250632, ...}) = 0
18:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
20:fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=728120, ...}) = 0
26:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
28:fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=969008, ...}) = 0
34:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
37:fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1965296, ...}) = 0
45:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/libssl.so.3", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
47:fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=914736, ...}) = 0
53:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.3", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
55:fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=5436168, ...}) = 0
62:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/libhttp_parser.so.2.9", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
64:fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=42696, ...}) = 0
72:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/libpcre2-8.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
74:fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=633072, ...}) = 0
80:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/libssh2.so.1", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
82:fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=293288, ...}) = 0
88:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
90:fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=100296, ...}) = 0
129:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/self/maps", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
131:fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
142:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/bat/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom)
143:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/$USER/.config/bat/config", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom)
167:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/$USER/.cache/bat/metadata.yaml", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom)
170:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/$USER/.cache/bat/themes.bin", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom)
173:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/null", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
214:openat(AT_FDCWD, ".aliases", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
238:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf", O_RDONLY) = 5
239:fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=12328, ...}) = 0
240:read(5, "#\n# OpenSSL example configuratio"..., 4096) = 4096
271:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ssl/cert.pem", O_RDONLY) = 5
272:fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=225535, ...}) = 0
345:newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/$USER/.aliases/.git", 0x7ffc3a6f26d0, 0) = -1 ENOTDIR (N'est pas un dossier)
346:newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/$USER/.aliases", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1384, ...}, 0) = 0
347:newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/$USER/.git", 0x7ffc3a6f26d0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom)
348:newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/$USER", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}, 0) = 0
349:newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/$USER/commondir", 0x7ffc3a6f24d0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom)
350:newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/$USER/HEAD", 0x7ffc3a6f24d0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom)
351:newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/.git", 0x7ffc3a6f26d0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom)
352:newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}, 0) = 0
353:newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/commondir", 0x7ffc3a6f24d0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom)
354:newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/HEAD", 0x7ffc3a6f24d0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom)
roguh commented

Ah, I found it. I had set all of these variables to replace less with most as much as possible:

    set_global PAGER less
    set_global LESS $PAGER
    set_global MANPAGER $PAGER
    set_global SYSTEMD_PAGER $PAGER
    alias less=$PAGER

Removing this fixes bat :)

roguh commented

Also running bat without the pager bat -P or by explicitly specifying most/less as my pager :) bat --pager most.

I'll throw that into my aliases.

Thanks!