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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)cat.1       6.3 (Berkeley) 9/29/87
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH CAT 1 "September 29, 1987"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: cat \- catenate and print
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B cat
        !            13: [
        !            14: .B \-benstuv
        !            15: ]
        !            16: file ...
        !            17: .br
        !            18: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            19: .I Cat
        !            20: reads each
        !            21: .I file
        !            22: in sequence and displays it on the standard output.  Thus
        !            23: .PP
        !            24: .ti+15n
        !            25: cat file
        !            26: .PP
        !            27: displays the file on the standard output, and
        !            28: .PP
        !            29: .ti+15n
        !            30: cat file1 file2 >file3
        !            31: .PP
        !            32: concatenates the first two files and places the result on the third.
        !            33: .PP
        !            34: If no input file is given, or if the argument `\-' is encountered,
        !            35: .I cat
        !            36: reads from the standard input file.
        !            37: Output is buffered in the block size recommended by \fIstat\fP(2)
        !            38: unless the standard output is a terminal,
        !            39: when it is line buffered.  The
        !            40: .B \-u
        !            41: option makes the output completely unbuffered.
        !            42: .PP
        !            43: The
        !            44: .B \-n
        !            45: option displays the output lines preceded by lines numbers, numbered
        !            46: sequentially from 1.  Specifying the 
        !            47: .B \-b
        !            48: option with the
        !            49: .B \-n
        !            50: option omits the line numbers from blank lines.
        !            51: .PP
        !            52: The
        !            53: .B \-s
        !            54: option crushes out multiple adjacent empty lines so that the
        !            55: output is displayed single spaced.
        !            56: .PP
        !            57: The
        !            58: .B \-v
        !            59: option displays non-printing characters so that they are visible.
        !            60: Control characters print like ^X for control-x; the delete character
        !            61: (octal 0177) prints as ^?.
        !            62: Non-ascii characters (with the high bit set) are printed as M-
        !            63: (for meta) followed by the character of the low 7 bits.  A
        !            64: .B \-e
        !            65: option may be given with the
        !            66: .B \-v
        !            67: option, which displays a `$' character at the end of each line.
        !            68: Specifying the 
        !            69: .B \-t
        !            70: option with the
        !            71: .B \-v
        !            72: option displays tab characters as ^I.
        !            73: .PP
        !            74: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            75: cp(1), ex(1), more(1), pr(1), tail(1)
        !            76: .SH BUGS
        !            77: Beware of `cat a b >a' and `cat a b >b', which destroy
        !            78: the input files before reading them.

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