Text processing
cat
Concatenation and display of files.
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Verified: 2025-09-09
Syntax
$cat [OPTIONEN] [DATEI...]
Examples
$cat datei.txt
$cat -n datei.txt
Typical use cases
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Standard usage
cat --help
Note
Available on all Linux distributions
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