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Examples of displaying files with the cat command

Examples of displaying files with the cat command

1. To display a file: 

   cat README

This displays the contents of the file README. If the file contains more lines than can be displayed on the screen at once it will scroll by: use a pager instead.

2. To display line numbers: 

   cat -b myprog.c

This displays the contents of myprog.c and numbers the lines. Blank lines are not numbered.