cat

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Concatenate and print files (POSIX, toybox)

Syntax:

cat [-etuv] [file...]

Runs on:

QNX OS

Options:

-e
Mark each newline with a dollar sign ($).
-t
Show tab characters as ^I.
-u
Copy one byte at a time (slow).
-v
Display non-printing characters as escape sequences with M-x for high ASCII characters (greater than 127), and ^x for other non-printing characters.
file
The pathname of an input file. If no files are specified, standard input is used. If a file is the dash character (-), cat reads from standard input at that point in the sequence.

Description:

The cat utility reads files in the order you specify and writes their contents to standard output.

This utility is provided as part of the toybox package. For information on how to enable it, see toybox.

Contributing author:

Rob Landley and the toybox project (see https://landley.net/toybox/).

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