Linux Daily Tip – Concatenate
April 28th, 2010
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A extremely useful tool for outputting the contents of a file is “Cat” short for Concatenate. Cat will print the standard output onto the screen.
A useful example:
cat -n -s /proc/cpuinfo | more
Options: -n will number the lines outputted while -s will suppress excess empty lines.
Its also useful to pipe the output into more to make it easier to read.
Want to learn more about pipe? Checkout Alex’s article here.