Essential Bash

Using cat

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Syntax

Parameters

Option | Details |

——— | —–– |

-n | Print line numbers |

-v | Show non-printing characters using ^ and M- notation except LFD and TAB | -T | Show TAB characters as ^I | -E | Show linefeed(LF) characters as $ | -e | Same as -vE | -b | Number nonempty output lines, overrides -n | -A | equivalent to -vET | -s | suppress repeated empty output lines, s refers to squeeze

Remarks

cat can read from both files and standard inputs and concatenates them to standard output

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