I often write cat as a first element of a pipeline, then replace it with head/tail, or grep when I need to narrow it down. "oh but you can save one character"

I often write cat as a first element of a pipeline, then replace it with head/tail, or grep when I need to narrow it down. "oh but you can save one character" (one coz <> requires shift) yeah fuck that, if I was bothered with it I'd alias cat to c