bat version compatibility about xdg-ninja HOT 2 CLOSED

I feel like there would be no use for us to redirect to a variable other than for instance redirecting to a file (or directly do ./xdg-ninja.sh > output).

It is unlikely to do so but plausible, I would by myself disable this BUT, in this case, the rest of the program forces coloration (e.g., XDG env variables warning), so it makes sense to force bat to do so.

I think replacing -f to --decorations=always --color=always is what is best in that case, and that if there is a need for file redirection in the future, it would be best to add a --disable-color argument in the command.

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Since at that point of the code, the output is being printed directly to an interactive tty, bat uses colorization. However, if the code is changed into this:

a=$(printf "%s\n" "$HELP" | bat -pp --language markdown)
printf "%s" "$a"

Then colorization is deactivated cause -f is not provided.
To accomodate for older versions of bat, we can use --decorations=always --color=always in place of -f. Either that, or we can remove this switch altogether but remember to not redirect printf | bat to anything other than an interactive tty.

bat's manpage:

       -f, --force-colorization

              Alias for '--decorations=always --color=always'. This is useful if
              the  output  of  bat  is piped to another program, but you want to
              keep the colorization/decorations.

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