bat stalls when it encounters extremely long strings (bug / request?)

[Adamkadaban]

I have a bash script with a ~120000 character b64 string. When bat encounters it, it stalls for a about 3 minutes. It takes just a second if outputting something closer to ~4000 characters.

Default install of bat. Installed using dpkg -i bat*.deb

Software version

bat 0.20.0 (0655ecf)

Operating system

Linux 5.16.0-kali3-amd64

Command-line

/bin/batcat linpeas.sh --paging=never --diagnostic 

Environment variables

SHELL=/bin/bash
PAGER=<not set>
LESS=<not set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=<not set>
BAT_PAGER=<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=<not set>

Config file

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

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 590 (GNU regular expressions)
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For information about the terms of redistribution,
see the file named README in the less distribution.
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[keith-hall]

Thanks for reporting. I believe we are tracking this under #1658

[Enselic]

Duplicate of #1658