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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>cat</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="casting-the-runes.html" title="casting the runes"/><link rel="next" href="catatonic.html" title="catatonic"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cat</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="casting-the-runes.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="catatonic.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="cat"/><dt xmlns="" id="cat"><b>cat</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>[from <span class="firstterm">catenate</span> via
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<a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">cat</span>(1)</span>]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other
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output sink without pause (syn. <a href="../B/blast.html"><i class="glossterm">blast</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, to dump large amounts of data at an unprepared
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target or with no intention of browsing it carefully. Usage: considered
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silly. Rare outside Unix sites. See also <a href="../D/dd.html"><i class="glossterm">dd</i></a>,
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<a href="../B/BLT.html"><i class="glossterm">BLT</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>Among Unix fans,
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">cat</span>(1)</span>
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is considered an excellent example of user-interface design, because it
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delivers the file contents without such verbosity as spacing or headers
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between the files, and because it does not require the files to consist of
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lines of text, but works with any sort of data.</p><p>Among Unix haters,
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">cat</span>(1)</span>
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is considered the <a href="canonical.html"><i class="glossterm">canonical</i></a> example of
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<span class="emphasis"><em>bad</em></span> user-interface design, because of its woefully
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unobvious name. It is far more often used to <a href="../B/blast.html"><i class="glossterm">blast</i></a>
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a file to standard output than to concatenate two files. The name <b class="command">cat</b> for the former operation is just as unintuitive
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as, say, LISP's <a href="cdr.html"><i class="glossterm">cdr</i></a>.</p><p>Of such oppositions are <a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a>
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made.... See also <a href="../U/UUOC.html"><i class="glossterm">UUOC</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="casting-the-runes.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="catatonic.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">casting the runes<65></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>catatonic</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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