SYNTAX

    cat [options] [<file_name>] ...


OPTIONS

-h (--help) bool

Display help.

-f (--force) bool

Read the files even if they are open exclusively by another process. Runs a small risk of the data read being corrupt.

-b (--binary) bool

Similar to --encoding binary, but in addition sets the console mode to binary (so, for eg, line endings are not translated)

-e (--encoding) enum

Encoding to use. If not specified, defaults to 'auto'.

auto

Use charconv to try and figure out the encoding (slow and error-prone for anything other than UTF-16 with BOM).

binary

Read the files in binary mode and do not perform any character conversion.

utf-8

Assume the file is UTF-8 (with or without BOM).

latin1

Assume the file is encoded using ISO-8859-1.

ltk-utf-8

Assume the file is UTF-8, but use the RLtkBuf16 UTF-8 parser rather than the charconv one (useful for testing).

-s (--block-size) int

Specify the block size to use for reading the file(s), in bytes. If not specified, defaults to 512 bytes.


ARGUMENTS

[<file_name>]

The names of the files to be concatenated. May contain wild characters * and ?. If none specified, reads from stdin. Can be specified more than once. [filename(s)]


DESCRIPTION

Concatenate the specified files and write their contents to stdout.


SEE ALSO

match, tail


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