CAT(1)               INTERACTIVE UNIX System               CAT(1)



          NAME
               cat - concatenate and print files

          SYNOPSIS
               cat [-u] [-s] [-v [-t] [-e]] file ...

          DESCRIPTION
               cat reads each file in sequence and writes it on the stan-
               dard output.  Thus:

                    "cat file"

               prints file on your terminal, and:

                    cat file1 file2 >file3

               concatenates file1 and file2, and writes the results in
               file3.

               If no input file is given, or if the argument - is encoun-
               tered, cat reads from the standard input file.

               The following options apply to cat:

               -u   The output is not buffered.  (The default is buffered
                    output.)

               -s   cat is silent about nonexistent files.

               -v   Causes non-printing characters (with the exception of
                    tabs, new-lines and form-feeds) to be 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.

               The following options may be used with the -v option:

               -t   Causes tabs to be printed as ^I's and formfeeds to be
                    printed as ^L's.

               -e   Causes a $ character to be printed at the end of each
                    line (prior to the new-line).

               The -t and -e options are ignored if the -v option is not
               specified.

          WARNING
               Redirecting the output of cat onto one of the files being
               read will cause the loss of the data originally in the file


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               being read.  For example, typing:

                    cat file1 file2 >file1

               will cause the original data in file1 to be lost.

          SEE ALSO
               cp(1), pg(1), pr(1).















































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