Add Print Out File With Bat Without Formatting as a Unix TIL

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 - [Print DateTime Represented By Unix Timestamp](unix/print-datetime-represented-by-unix-timestamp.md)
 - [Print Milliseconds In Human-Readable Format](unix/print-milliseconds-in-human-readable-format.md)
+- [Print Out File With Bat Without Formatting](unix/print-out-file-with-bat-without-formatting.md)
 - [Print Out Files In Reverse](unix/print-out-files-in-reverse.md)
 - [Print The Current Date In Human-Readable Format](unix/print-the-current-date-in-human-readable-format.md)
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unix/print-out-file-with-bat-without-formatting.md

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+# Print Out File With Bat Without Formatting
+
+The [`bat`](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) utility is my daily driver and
+replacement for anything used `cat` for before. I even have `bat` aliased to
+`cat` so that I never had to rewire my muscle memory for typing `cat`.
+
+Whether or not the creator of `cat` intended it, I'd guess that most terminal
+users' main use case is printing the contents of a file. `bat` does that way
+better with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and some layout formatting that
+puts lines around the output and a heading with the filename.
+
+All this formatting is great when I'm taking a quick look at a file. One way it
+gets in the way is when I'm trying to highlight and copy a few lines to my
+clipboard. Because the terminal is rendering lines, line numbers, and other
+formatting, all that fluff gets included on the clipboard.
+
+For this scenario, I can use the `-p` flag (or `--style=plain`) to print just
+the (syntax-highlighted) file contents without all the extra formatting.
+
+```bash
+bat -p app/models/users.rb
+
+# or
+bat --style=plain app/models/users.rb
+```
+
+Another way I could have approached this was to [ignore the alias of `cat` to
+`bat`](ignore-the-alias-when-running-a-command.md).