Overriding cat Command to Display URLs Within Bash

In Bash language command line on Linux PC/server, this article introduces a program to override the cat command so that you can also cat files from URLs.

It kind of feels like an exaggeration.

cat(){
  : <<<' e.g. cat https://example.com/hoge.md'
  [[ "${1}" =~ ^https?:\/\/ ]] && wget --timeout 5 --tries 5 --quiet -O - "${1}" || /bin/cat "$@"

}

I’m not doing anything particularly new, but Bash seems to have fewer people knowledgeable about it compared to other languages, so well, for reference.