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CAT ST-UNIX User's Manual CAT
COMMAND
cat - copy files to stdout
FORMAT
cat [ -u ] [ -n ] [ -s ] [ -v ] file ...
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:
cat afile
displays the file on the screen. To copy (and concatenate) a
number of files into one type:
cat filea fileb >filec
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).
OPTIONS
-u unbuffer output (output is usualy buffered in 512 byte
blocks).
-n preceed lines with line numbers.
-s remove multiple blanks lines, only one is displayed.
-v display non-printing characters as ^character, ie. like
^C.
Printed 10/April/1987 1st March 1987 1