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Short for "concatenate", displays the contents of a file on the screen. Can be used with multiple filenames in which case it outputs the contents of all the files concatenated together sequentially into a single stream. Used frequently with output redirectors to combine separate files into one.

last edited (December 4, 2002) by infidel, Number of views: 1228, Current Rev: 1

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