My main use of cat is for clipboard pasting (if I can't leverage pbpaste or something more appropriate). If I want to get something into a file or get into a p

My main use of cat is for clipboard pasting (if I can't leverage pbpaste or something more appropriate). If I want to get something into a file or get into a pipe as stdin `cat > file` or `cat | cmd`, paste, then end with cmd-D to send an EOF and terminate the cat. For files it circumvents "helpful" formatting you would get pasting into an editor.