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 You can use the `--style` option to control the appearance of `bat`s output.
 You can use `--style=numbers,changes`, for example, to show only Git changes
-and line numbers but no grid and no file header.
+and line numbers but no grid and no file header. Use the `BAT_STYLE` environment
+variable to make these changes permanent.
 
 ### Adding new syntaxes / language definitions