cat(1)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cat — concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cat [-A|--show-all] [-b|--number-nonblank] [-e ] [-E|--show-ends]
[-n|--number] [-s|--squeeze-blank] [-t ] [-T|--show-tabs]
[-v|--show-nonprinting] [-u ] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [file]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

no cap, here's the whole vibe: concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input 💅

like. that's it. that's the whole job. she's simple, she's powerful, she's main character energy 👑

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -A, --show-all — literally just -vET, all bundled up together 🎀
• -b, --number-nonblank — number the nonempty output lines only. and yes, this overrides -n, she said what she said 💅
• -e — the same as -vE, short and sweet ✨
• -E, --show-ends — puts a $ at the end of every single line, so you can see where they end 🔥
• -n, --number — numbers all the output lines, every last one ⭐
• -s, --squeeze-blank — suppresses repeated empty output lines. the blank lines get squeezed, she's on a diet 🙈
• -t — equivalent to -vT, iconic combo 🧚
• -T, --show-tabs — shows TAB characters as ^I so you can actually see them, no sneaky invisible tabs 💀
• -v, --show-nonprinting — uses ^ and M- notation for the weird stuff, except for LF (\n) and TAB (\t), those get a pass 🌸
• -u — (ignored) 🫠 like okay bestie we see you, but nothing happens
• -h, --help — print help 💖
• -V, --version — print version 💜

✨ VERSION ✨

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0 🌟

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