cat Command cat
Concatenate/print files
cat [ -u ][ file ... ]
cat copies each file arguments to the standard output. A `-'
tells cat to read the standard input. If no file is specified,
cat reads the standard input.
The -u option makes the output unbuffered. Otherwise, cat buff-
ers the output in units of the machine's disk block size (e.g.,
512 bytes).
***** See Also *****
commands
***** Notes *****
If you redirect cat's the output to one of its input files, it
will loop forever, reading from the file the text that it has
just written into it: in effect, cat will chase its own tail end-
lessly.
COHERENT Lexicon Page 1