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cat command

0001-01-01

The cat command concatenates files and prints them to standard output. It is commonly used on Linux and Unix-like systems to print the contents of one or more files.

Example usage:

Display the contents of /etc/passwd cat /etc/passwd

Display the contents of /home/daniel/secret1 and /home/daniel/secret2

cat /home/daniel/secret1 /home/daniel/secret2

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