Cat: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 15:39, 10 August 2007

Cat is a command to concatenate or just print files.. here is an example

cat file | head

which would pipe the file "file" to the program head.

#!/bin/sh

while : ; do
 read i
 echo $i
done

The above script serves as a rudamentary cat, when it's missing in a system.

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 Cat is a command to concatenate or just print files.. here is an example
-  cat file | head
+  cat [[Variables|file]] | head
-which would pipe the file "file" to the program head.
+which would [[pipe]] the file "file" to the program head.
-An example improved cat would the following shell syntax:
   #!/bin/sh
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   done
-The above serves as a rudamentary cat, when it's missing in a system.
+The above [[script]] serves as a rudamentary cat, when it's missing in a system.