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bat is certainly a game changer. I never printed things out to the terminal - always did a `less` or a `view` - before I installed bat.

One (very) minor issue I have with it is that when the file is very small - a couple words or lines at most - then the "decorations" it prints around the content get distracting and make the content slightly harder to read. Maybe I should just write a wrapper around it that does a `wc` first and decides whether to do a `bat` or a `cat`.



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