CATG(1)

💖 CATG(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual for catg — that's the catg user command, version 2.9.3, living in section 1 of the manual. pull up a chair, we're gonna go through it together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

catg — the manual page for catg 2.9.3. that's it, that's the name section, she's lowkey self-referential and I respect it 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

catg [-xv] [infile]...

so it's catg, then optionally some flags, then optionally a whole bunch of input files. simple. elegant. iconic ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Copy files to stdout with all but the first header removed.

fr fr, that's the whole vibe. it reads your files, copies them out to standard output, and the first header is the one that survives — every other header gets yeeted 🌈

💅 the flags

• -x — don't write a header. so if you don't pass -x, a header gets written if there is one in the first input file. no first-file header? then no header, periodt. if you do pass -x, nothing gets a header, we're keeping it clean ✨
• -v — summarize to stderr. not stdout, bestie, stderr. your actual output stays untouched and the summary goes off to the side like a little side quest 👑

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heads up 🫶 the header logic only cares about the first input file. that's not me editorializing, that's literally what it says — a header is written if there is one in the first input file. iykyk 💀

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and that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 💖 the source of all this is catg version 2.9.3, dated September 2026 — so if you're reading this from the future, hiii, hope the headers behaved 🎀🧚⭐