diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c7ebdc55..c4cca27c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 - `bat --squeeze-blank`/`bat -s` will now squeeze consecutive empty lines, see #1441 (@eth-p) and #2665 (@einfachIrgendwer0815)
 - `bat --squeeze-limit` to set the maximum number of empty consecutive when using `--squeeze-blank`, see #1441 (@eth-p) and #2665 (@einfachIrgendwer0815)
 - `PrettyPrinter::squeeze_empty_lines` to support line squeezing for bat as a library, see #1441 (@eth-p) and #2665 (@einfachIrgendwer0815)
+- Provide syntax highlighting for .spec files #2931 (@rtczza)
 
 ## Bugfixes
 
diff --git a/assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/RPMSpec.sublime-syntax b/assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/RPMSpec.sublime-syntax
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7e97f4fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/syntaxes/02_Extra/RPMSpec.sublime-syntax
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+# http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/syntax.html
+name: RPM Spec
+file_extensions:
+  - spec
+scope: source.spec
+contexts:
+  main:
+    - match: '(Icon|ExclusiveOs|ExcludeOs):'
+      scope: keyword.spec
+    - match: '(BuildArch|BuildArchitectures|ExclusiveArch|ExcludeArch):'
+      captures:
+        0: keyword.spec
+      push:
+        - match: $
+          pop: true
+        - include: archs
+        - match: '[^\s,]+'
+          scope: invalid.spec
+    - match: '(Conflicts|Obsoletes|Provides|Requires|Requires\(.*\)|Enhances|Suggests|BuildConflicts|BuildRequires|Recommends|PreReq|Supplements):'
+      scope: keyword.spec
+    - match: '(Epoch|Serial|Nosource|Nopatch):'
+      scope: keyword.spec
+    - match: '(AutoReq|AutoProv|AutoReqProv):'
+      scope: keyword.spec
+    - match: '(Copyright|License|Summary|Summary\(.*\)|Distribution|Vendor|Packager|Group|Source\d*|Patch\d*|BuildRoot|Prefix):'
+      scope: keyword.spec
+    - match: '(Name|Version|Release|Url|URL):'
+      scope: keyword.spec
+    - match: ^(Source|Patch)
+      push:
+        - meta_scope: keyword.spec
+        - match: ':'
+          pop: true
+    - match: '^# norootforbuild'
+      scope: keyword.spec
+    - match: '%(ifarch|ifnarch)'
+      captures:
+        0: keyword.control.spec
+      push:
+        - match: $
+          pop: true
+        - include: archs
+        - match: '[^\s,]+'
+          scope: invalid.spec
+    - match: ^%(changelog|check$|description|files|package)
+      scope: keyword.control.spec
+    - match: ^(%(prep$|build$|install$|clean$|(pre|post)(un|trans)?|trigger(in|un|postun)|verifyscript))
+      scope: keyword.control.spec
+    - match: '%(if|else|endif|define|global|undefine|ifos|ifnos)'
+      scope: keyword.control.spec
+    - match: '%\{'
+      push:
+        - meta_scope: variable.other.spec
+        - match: '\}'
+          pop: true
+    - match: '%([A-Za-z0-9_]+)'
+      scope: variable.other.spec
+    - match: ^\s*#.*$
+      scope: comment.line.spec
+    - match: ^\* .*\)$
+      scope: meta.documentation.spec
+  archs:
+    - match: \b(i386|i486|i586|i686|athlon|ia64|alpha|alphaev5|alphaev56|alphapca56|alphaev6|alphaev67|sparc|sparcv9|sparc64armv3l|armv4b|armv4lm|ips|mipsel|ppc|ppc|iseries|ppcpseries|ppc64|m68k|m68kmint|Sgi|rs6000|i370|s390x|s390|noarch)\b
+      scope: constant.other
diff --git a/tests/syntax-tests/source/RPMSpec/bat.spec b/tests/syntax-tests/source/RPMSpec/bat.spec
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..88adfecb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/syntax-tests/source/RPMSpec/bat.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+#
+# spec file for package bat
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2023 SUSE LLC
+#
+# All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
+# remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
+# upon. The license for this file, and modifications and additions to the
+# file, is the same license as for the pristine package itself (unless the
+# license for the pristine package is not an Open Source License, in which
+# case the license is the MIT License). An "Open Source License" is a
+# license that conforms to the Open Source Definition (Version 1.9)
+# published by the Open Source Initiative.
+
+# Please submit bugfixes or comments via https://bugs.opensuse.org/
+#
+
+
+Name:           bat
+Version:        0.24.0
+Release:        0
+Summary:        A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration
+License:        Apache-2.0 OR MIT
+Group:          Productivity/Text/Utilities
+URL:            https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
+Source0:        %{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
+Source1:        vendor.tar.xz
+Source2:        cargo_config
+BuildRequires:  cargo-packaging
+# weak-dep-features introduced in 1.60 and already used by libgit2-sys
+# https://github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs/commit/d8ee105a8f3ce4d5c57cd091b67943aab86b176a
+BuildRequires:  rust >= 1.60
+ExclusiveArch:  %{rust_arches}
+
+%description
+A cat(1) clone which supports syntax highlighting for a large number of
+programming and markup languages. It has git integration and automatic paging.
+
+%package bash-completion
+Summary:        Bash completion for %{name}
+Requires:       %{name} = %{version}
+Supplements:    (%{name} and bash-completion)
+BuildArch:      noarch
+
+%description bash-completion
+Bash command line completion support for %{name}.
+
+%package fish-completion
+Summary:        Fish completion for %{name}
+Requires:       %{name} = %{version}
+Supplements:    (%{name} and fish)
+BuildArch:      noarch
+
+%description fish-completion
+Fish command line completion support for %{name}.
+
+%package zsh-completion
+Summary:        Zsh completion for %{name}
+Requires:       %{name} = %{version}
+Supplements:    (%{name} and zsh)
+BuildArch:      noarch
+
+%description zsh-completion
+Zsh command line completion support for %{name}.
+
+%prep
+%setup -qa1
+mkdir .cargo
+cp %{SOURCE2} .cargo/config
+
+%build
+%{cargo_build}
+
+%install
+install -D -m 0755 target/release/%{name} %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/%{name}
+
+install -D -m 0644 $(find target/release/build -name "%{name}.1") "%{buildroot}/%{_mandir}/man1/%{name}.1"
+
+install -D -m 0644 $(find target/release/build -name "%{name}.bash") "%{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/bash-completion/completions/%{name}"
+install -D -m 0644 $(find target/release/build -name "%{name}.fish") "%{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/fish/vendor_completions.d/%{name}.fish"
+install -D -m 0644 $(find target/release/build -name "%{name}.zsh")  "%{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/zsh/site-functions/_%{name}"
+
+%if %{with check}
+%check
+%{cargo_test}
+%endif
+
+%files
+%doc README.md CONTRIBUTING.md CHANGELOG.md
+%license LICENSE-MIT LICENSE-APACHE
+%{_bindir}/%{name}
+%{_mandir}/man1/%{name}.1%{ext_man}
+
+%files bash-completion
+%{_datadir}/bash-completion/completions/%{name}
+
+%files fish-completion
+%dir %{_datadir}/fish
+%dir %{_datadir}/fish/vendor_completions.d
+%{_datadir}/fish/vendor_completions.d/%{name}.fish
+
+%files zsh-completion
+%dir %{_datadir}/zsh
+%dir %{_datadir}/zsh/site-functions
+%{_datadir}/zsh/site-functions/_%{name}
+
+%changelog
+