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| Original author(s) | Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | AT&T Bell Laboratories |
| Initial release | November 3, 1971 |
| Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9, Inferno, ReactOS |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Type | Command |
| License | coreutils: GPLv3+ ReactOS: GPLv2+ |
cat is a standard Unix utility that reads files sequentially, writing them to standard output. The name is derived from its function to (con)catenate files (from Latin catenare, "to chain").[1]
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It has been ported to a number of operating systems.
The other primary purpose of cat, aside from concatenation, is file printing — allowing the computer user to view the contents of a file. Printing to files and the terminal are the most common uses of cat.[3]
- ^ "In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for?". University Information Technology Services. Indiana University. Archived from the original on July 16, 2024.
- ^ Kernighan, Brian W.; Pike, Rob (1984). The UNIX Programming Environment. Addison-Wesley. p. 15.
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