It will show content of given filename
It will show content of given filename
The cat command (short for “concatenate “) is one of the most frequently used commands in Linux. cat command allows you to create single or multiple files, view contents of file, concatenate files and redirect output in terminal or files.
$ cat file.txt
$ cat file1.txt file2.txt
it reads data from the file and fives their content as output
$cat filename
shows the contents of that file
$ cat/etc/passwd
shows the contents of bothe files
$ cat file file1
create a file
$cat>file2
create a file
$cat>file2
displays line numbers to the file
$ cat -n file1
shows the $ at the end of the line and in the gap between the paragraphs
$ cat -e file1
tab space is filled by ^i by usinf -T command
$cat -T file1
dispalys multiple files together
$ cat file 1 number.txt
This will create a file file2 and the output of the cat command is piped to sort and the result will be redirected to a newly created file.
$ cat file1 numbers.txt | sort file2