If you use zsh then just "<myfile.txt" should work too, which opens the file in $PAGER. Doesn't seem to work in bash though, with the default config anyway, but

If you use zsh then just "<myfile.txt" should work too, which opens the file in $PAGER. Doesn't seem to work in bash though, with the default config anyway, but maybe it can be configured. I don't care if people use "cat" or "<" and the whole "useless use of cat" is stupid >99% of the time, but I've gotten in to the habit of using <file as it's shorter to type ("<file cmd" vs. "cat file | cmd").