explain how to use bat as cat (no paging)
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### Automatic paging
-`bat` can pipe its own output to a pager (e.g `less`) if the output is too large for one screen.
+By default, `bat` pipes its own output to a pager (e.g `less`) if the output is too large for one screen.
+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.
+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.
-### File concatenation
+#### File concatenation
-Oh.. you can also use it to concatenate files :wink:. 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.
+Even with a pager set, you can still use `bat` to concatenate files :wink:.
+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.
## How to use
