bat: better than cat

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## CentOS
wget https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/releases/download/v0.24.0/bat-v0.24.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
tar -xvf bat-v0.24.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
cd bat-v0.24.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

cp ./bat ~/local/bin

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## cat
alias cat='~/local/bin/bat --style=plain'
## help
alias bathelp='bat --plain --language=help'
help() {
    "$@" --help 2>&1 | bathelp
}
alias -g -- -h='-h 2>&1 | bat --language=help --style=plain'
alias -g -- --help='--help 2>&1 | bat --language=help --style=plain'
## tail -f
taillog() {
    tail -f $1 | bat --paging=never -l log
}
## fzf
alias fzfx='fzf --preview "bat --color=always --style=numbers --line-range=:500 {}"'