BK-CAT(1)

🌸 bk cat(none) — BitKeeper User’s Manual 🌸

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this is the bk cat page, and it is literally giving concatenate and display file contents 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bk cat file [file ...]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

bk cat sends one or more files to standard output. Use it when you want a file’s contents but the caller does not know whether the file is under revision control or whether it is checked out. Main character energy: it handles that “do I even know this file?” vibe check for you 🫶

Here’s the tea, bestie: bk cat is not the standard UNIX cat command. It differs in two ways, fr fr:

1. It does not support any of the UNIX cat options — none, zero, zip, periodt 💅
2. If a file is specified which does not exist, but a corresponding sfile does exist, the most recent version of sfile is sent to standard output ✨

The following shell script emulates the bk cat command:

           for i in "$@"
           do       if [ ‐f $i ]
                    then    cat $i
                    else    # ignore error messages
                            bk get ‐kp $i 2>/dev/null
                    fi
           done

🌈 CATEGORY 🌈

File — yep, that’s the category, and that’s the whole vibe 🎀

later bestie — source/version: BitKeeper Inc · 1E1 · bk cat(none) · date: not listed on this page, so I’m not inventing one 💅