Concatenates file(s) and displays on the screen.
| syntax: | cat [options] [file...] | |
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| arguments: | file(s) | One or more files that should be concatenated |
| options: | -n | Precede each line output with its line number. |
| -b | Number the lines, as -n, but omit the line numbers from blank lines. | |
| -u | The output is not buffered. (The default is buffered output). | |
| -s | cat is silent about non-existent files. | |
| -v | Non-printing characters (with exception of tabs, new-lines and form-feeds) are printed visibly. ASCII control characters (octal 000 - 037) are printed as ^n, where n is the corresponding ASCII character in the range octal 100 - 137 (@, A, B, C, ..., X, Y, Z, [, \, ], and _); the DEL character (octal 0177) is printed ^?. Other non-printable characters are printed as M-x, where x is the ASCII character specified by the low-order seven bits. | |
No Error Conditions defined
| 0 | Success |
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| 1 | Error |
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