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cat — Concatenate or display text files
Format
Description
Options
Localization
Exit Values
cat [–su] [–v [et]] [file ...]
cat displays and concatenates files. It copies each file argument to the standard
output (stdout). If you specify no files or specify a dash (–) as a filename, cat
reads the standard input (stdin).
Note: You can use cat in conjunction with the scrolling facility of the OMVS TSO/E
command to browse data files.
–e Displays a $ character at the end of each line. This option works only if you
also specify –v.
–s Does not produce an error message if cat cannot find or read a specified
file.
–t Displays tabs as ^I. This option works only if you also specify –v.
–u Does not buffer output.
–v Displays all characters including those that are unprintable characters. With
a doublebyte character set, an unprintable wide character is converted back
to its doublebyte representation. Each byte is then checked as if it were a
singlebyte character. If the character is unprintable, one of the following
three representations is used:
v M–X is used for character X if the significant bit is set.
v ^X is used for the control character X (for example, ^A for CTRL-A).
v \xxx represents a character with the octal value xxx.
The \xxx form is used if neither of the other representations can be used.
cat uses the following localization environment variables:
v LANG
v LC_ALL
v LC_CTYPE
v LC_MESSAGES
v LC_SYNTAX
v NLSPATH
See Appendix F, “Localization” for more information.
0 Successful completion
1 Failure due to any of the following:
v An incorrect command-line argument
v Inability to open the input file
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