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O’Reilly Books Latest LAMP Titles: mod_perl Pocket Reference SQL in a Nutshell Network Printing Books by topic: Linux Open Source Security System and Network Administration Unix Web and Internet O’Reilly Network Technologies: ONJava.com ONLamp.com openp2p.com Perl.com XML.com Apache BSD Java Javascript and CSS Linux Mac Mozilla .NET P2P Perl Policy PHP Python Web Services Wireless Print TAB characters as ^I. -u Ignored; retained for Unix compatibility. -v, –show-nonprinting Display control and nonprinting characters, with the exception of LINEFEED and TAB. Examples cat ch1 Display a file cat ch1 ch2 ch3 > all Combine files cat note5 >> notes Append to a file cat > temp1 Create file at terminal; end with EOF cat > temp2 << STOP Create file at terminal; end with STOP Return to: Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands
Sponsored by: Search | Newsletter | Conference | Tech Jobs O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference: May 13-16, 2002 Articles Linux Apache MySQL Perl PHP Python BSD Essentials What is LAMP? The Best of ONLamp.com aboutSQL Big Scary Daemons FreeBSD Basics HTTP Wrangler Linux in the Enterprise Linux Network Administration The Linux Professional Perl P5P Digest Archive PHP Admin Basics PHP Phanatics Python_News Security Alerts Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands This directory of Linux commands is from Linux in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition. Click on any of the 379 commands below to get a description and list of available options. All links in the command summaries point to the online version of the book on Safari Tech Books Online. Buy it now Read it online cat [options] [files] Read (concatenates) one or more files and print them on standard output. Read standard input if no files are specified or if - is specified as one of the files; input ends with EOF. You can use the > operator to combine several files into a new file or >> to append files to an existing file. Options -A, –show-all Same as -vET. -b, –number-nonblank Number all nonblank output lines, starting with 1. -e Same as -vE. -E, –show-ends Print $ at the end of each line. -n, –number Number all output lines, starting with 1. -s, –squeeze-blank Squeeze down multiple blank lines to one blank line. -t Same as -vT. -T, –show-tabs Sponsored by:
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O’Reilly Books Latest LAMP Titles: mod_perl Pocket Reference SQL in a Nutshell Network Printing Books by topic: Linux Open Source Security System and Network Administration Unix Web and Internet O’Reilly Network Technologies: ONJava.com ONLamp.com openp2p.com Perl.com XML.com Apache BSD Java Javascript and CSS Linux Mac Mozilla .NET P2P Perl Policy PHP Python Web Services Wireless Write cardmgr’s process ID to file instead of /var/run/cardmgr.pid. -q Run in quiet mode. No beeps. -sfile Write current socket information to file instead of /var/run/stab. -v Verbose mode. -V Print version number and exit. Return to: Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands