While cat does stand for "concatenate", what it actually does is simply display one or multiple files, in order of their appearance in the command line arguments to cat. The common pattern to view the contents of a file on Linux or *nix systems is: cat <file> The main difference between cat and Git's cat-file is that it only displays a single file (hence the -file part). Git's cat-file doesn't ...

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Is there replacement for cat on Windows [closed] Asked 17 years, 7 months ago Modified 1 year ago Viewed 553k times Can someone please shed some light on an equivalent method of executing something like "cat file1 -" in Linux ? What I want to do is to give control to the keyboard stream (which is "-& cat countryInfo.txt | grep -v "^#" >countryInfo-n.txt After some research i found that cat is for concatenation and grep is for regular exp search (don't know if i am right) but what will the above command result in (since both are combined together) ? Thanks in Advance. EDIT: I am asking this as i dont have linux installed.

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Else, i could test it.