From 1f177f0a1cd9feba75730ca240e0a7fd2678fcf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Peter Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:35:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f5a110de..cd746e5e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ characters: ### File concatenation Oh.. you can also use it to concatenate files :wink:. Whenever -`bat` detects a non-interactive terminal, it will fall back to printing -the plain file contents. +`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. ## How to use