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### Automatic paging
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`bat` can pipe its own output to a pager (e.g `less`) if the output is too large for one screen.
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By default, `bat` pipes its own output to a pager (e.g `less`) if the output is too large for one screen.
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If you would rather `bat` work like `cat` all the time (never page output), you can set `--paging=never` as an option, either on the command line or in your configuration file.
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If you intend to alias `cat` to `bat` in your shell configuration, you can use `alias cat='bat --paging=never'` to preserve the default behavior.
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### File concatenation
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#### File concatenation
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Oh.. you can also use it to concatenate files :wink:. Whenever
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`bat` detects a non-interactive terminal (i.e. when you pipe into another process
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or into a file), `bat` will act as a drop-in replacement for `cat` and
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fall back to printing the plain file contents.
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Even with a pager set, you can still use `bat` to concatenate files :wink:.
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Whenever `bat` detects a non-interactive terminal (i.e. when you pipe into another process or into a file), `bat` will act as a drop-in replacement for `cat` and fall back to printing the plain file contents, regardless of the `--pager` option's value.
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## How to use
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