[desperatecuban]

You can use \cat to prevent alias expansion.

[wlonkly]

Or 'command cat', which is a little less convenient but will also handle the case where "cat" is a function, not an alias.

(In bash at least. Not sure about newfangled shells!)

[drdude]

Neat! thanks for sharing. Few times I needed that but I had to go hunting down the full path.

[aroch]

I have ‘ccat’ aliases to the original cat binary

[SushiHippie]

That's even better, thank you!

[ossusermivami]

or you can do =cat on zsh