Bat tries to read .zip files as text

[kmafeni04]

What steps will reproduce the bug?

1. run bat test.zip

What happens?

Bat shows garbage text

What did you expect to happen instead?

to show <binary>

How did you install bat?

yay -S bat

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bat version and environment

Software version

bat 0.26.1 (v0.25.0-402-g979ba226)

Operating system

• OS: Linux (Arch Linux)
• Kernel: 6.19.10-arch1-1

Command-line

bat test.zip --diagnostic

Environment variables

BAT_CACHE_PATH=<not set>
BAT_CONFIG_PATH=<not set>
BAT_OPTS=<not set>
BAT_PAGER=<not set>
BAT_PAGING=<not set>
BAT_STYLE=<not set>
BAT_TABS=<not set>
BAT_THEME=<not set>
COLORTERM=truecolor
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=<not set>
LESS=<not set>
MANPAGER=<not set>
NO_COLOR=<not set>
PAGER=<not set>
SHELL=/usr/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/kome/.cache
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/kome/.config

System Config file

Could not read contents of '/etc/bat/config': No such file or directory (os error 2).

Config file

Could not read contents of '/home/kome/.config/bat/config': No such file or directory (os error 2).

Custom assets metadata

Could not read contents of '/home/kome/.cache/bat/metadata.yaml': No such file or directory (os error 2).

Custom assets

'/home/kome/.cache/bat' not found

Compile time information

• Profile: release
• Target triple: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
• Family: unix
• OS: linux
• Architecture: x86_64
• Pointer width: 64
• Endian: little
• CPU features: fxsr,sse,sse2
• Host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Less version

> less --version
less 692 (PCRE2 regular expressions)
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