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CAT

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: GNU Text Utilities
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NAME

cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output 

SYNOPSIS

cat[-benstuvAET] [--number] [--number-nonblank] [--squeeze-blank][--show-nonprinting] [--show-ends] [--show-tabs] [--show-all][--help] [--version][file...] 

DESCRIPTION

This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be inaccurateor incomplete. The Texinfo documentation is now the authoritative source.

This manual pagedocuments the GNU version ofcat.catwrites the contents of each given file, or the standard input ifnone are given or when a file named `-' is given, to the standardoutput. 

OPTIONS

-b, --number-nonblank

Number all nonblank output lines, starting with 1.

-e

Equivalent to-vE.

-n, --number

Number all output lines, starting with 1.

-s, --squeeze-blank

Replace multiple adjacent blank lines with a single blank line.

-t

Equivalent to-vT.

-u

Ignored; for Unix compatibility.

-v, --show-nonprinting

Display control characters except for LFD and TAB using `^' notationand precede characters that have the high bit set with `M-'.

-A, --show-all

Equivalent to-vET.

-E, --show-ends

Display a `$' after the end of each line.

-T, --show-tabs

Display TAB characters as `^I'.

--help

Print a usage message and exit with a status code indicating success.

--version

Print version information on standard output then exit.

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