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cat

Print and concatenate files. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/cat.

  • Print the contents of a file to stdout:

cat {{path/to/file}}

  • Concatenate several files into an output file:

cat {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}} > {{path/to/output_file}}

  • Append several files to an output file:

cat {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}} >> {{path/to/output_file}}

  • Write stdin to a file:

cat - > {{path/to/file}}

  • [n]umber all output lines:

cat -n {{path/to/file}}

  • Display non-printable and whitespace characters (with M- prefix if non-ASCII):

cat -v -t -e {{path/to/file}}