[spookie]

I call cat when I need to pipe or copy something, and just bat if I wanna read it myself. I find this as a good compromise, I like how bat formats things.

Your solution would be ok with an alias as well, so thanks. Might try it just so I dont need yet another program lying around

[seedie]

You can still pipe bat output as it falls back to unformated output when it detects a non-interactive terminal. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat?tab=readme-ov-file#file-conca...