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  1. unix - How to pipe list of files returned by find command to cat to ...

    May 14, 2009 · 46 There are a few ways to pass the list of files returned by the find command to the cat command, though technically not all use piping, and none actually pipe directly to cat. The simplest is …

  2. Can linux cat command be used for writing text to file?

    cat "Some text here." > myfile.txt Possible? Such that the contents of myfile.txt would now be overwritten to: Some text here. This doesn't work for me, but also doesn't throw any errors. Specifically …

  3. Windows equivalent for "cat - Stack Overflow

    May 26, 2021 · 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 …

  4. linux - How does "cat << EOF" work in bash? - Stack Overflow

    The cat <<EOF syntax is very useful when working with multi-line text in Bash, eg. when assigning multi-line string to a shell variable, file or a pipe. Examples of cat <<EOF syntax usage in Bash:

  5. LINUX Shell commands cat and grep - Stack Overflow

    Jun 6, 2013 · 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 …

  6. linux - Retrieve last 100 lines logs - Stack Overflow

    Aug 6, 2018 · I need to retrieve last 100 lines of logs from the log file. I tried the sed command sed -n -e '100,$p' logfilename Please let me know how can I change this command ...

  7. How to get the last line of a file using cat command

    Oct 18, 2016 · //This file is intended for //blah blah purposes 123 Using cat command, how can I get only the last line of the file ?

  8. linux - How can I copy the output of a command directly into my ...

    May 25, 2017 · How can I pipe the output of a command into my clipboard and paste it back when using a terminal? For instance: cat file | clipboard

  9. unix - Understanding how 'cat' command works - Stack Overflow

    Dec 14, 2011 · This is less about how cat works, and more about shell redirection. The shell processes the command line before it runs the program. It's easier to see if you push all the io redirection to the …

  10. Linux command (like cat) to read a specified quantity of characters

    Is there a command like cat in linux which can return a specified quantity of characters from a file? e.g., I have a text file like: Hello world this is the second line this is the third line And I