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- CAT ST-UNIX User's Manual CAT
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- COMMAND
- cat - copy files to stdout
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- FORMAT
- cat [ -u ] [ -n ] [ -s ] [ -v ] file ...
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- DESCRIPTION
- _✓C_✓a_✓t opens and reads each _✓f_✓i_✓l_✓e in and copies it to standard
- output (the screen if not redirected). To display a file on
- the screen type:
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- cat afile
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- displays the file on the screen. To copy (and concatenate) a
- number of files into one type:
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- cat filea fileb >filec
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- When no input file is given on the command line (or the file
- is '-') input is taken from standard input (the keyboard if
- not redirected).
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- OPTIONS
- -u unbuffer output (output is usualy buffered in 512 byte
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- -n preceed lines with line numbers.
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- -s remove multiple blanks lines, only one is displayed.
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- -v display non-printing characters as ^character, ie. like
- ^C.
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- Printed 10/April/1987 1st March 1987 1
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