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Linux: Command: Cat: What is the meaning of cat? [type]

May 26th, 2006 15:20
Knud van Eeden,

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Linux: Command: Cat: What is the meaning of cat? [type]

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cat means CATalog.

[book: source: Levine, John R. / Levine Young, Margaret - Unix for 
dummies - ISBN: 1-878058-58-4 - first page book / p. 44]

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You can use the command to show or concatenate content
of files

E.g. to append filename2 to the end of filename1, and write the result
     to newfilename, type the command

 cat filename1 filename2 > newfilename

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'cat' is similar to 'type' in MSDOS.

E.g. in MSDOS you would write

 type filename1 filename2 > newfilename

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To get more information about cat, type the command:

 man cat

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Internet: see also:

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/24502/fid/107

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