FCAT

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 8 December 1991
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NAME

fcatcmd, fcat - copy files in the FSP database to stdout

SYNOPSIS

fcatcmd filename ...

fcat filename ...

DESCRIPTION

For each file named in the argument list, fcatcmd reads the file and writes the content of the file to its stdout.

fcatcmd will perform csh file name globbing based on file and directory information obtained from the FSP database.

Since user's command shells generally cannot do the proper globbing for this program, it is recommended that user defines a shell alias or fucntion to turns off command shell globbing before running this program. csh example:

alias fcat \(set noglob\; exec fcatcmd \!\*\)

ENVIRONMENT

The following variables associate this program with a FSP database:

FSP_HOST: The name or internet number of the machine with the FSP server.
FSP_PORT: The port number of the UDP socket used by the FSP server.
FSP_LOCALPORT: The port number of the UDP socket used by FSP client utilities. You may pick any number not currently used for other purposes. The main reason of defining this number is to ensure mutual exclusion between client utilities accessing the same FSP database.
FSP_DIR: The current working directory of the client in the FSP database. The root of the database is /.
FSP_TRACE: If this variable is set, fcatcmd will display the number of kilo-byte blocks transfered as transfer progresses.