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If using an external utility is acceptable I'd prefer busybox for Windows which is a single ~600 kB exe incorporating ~30 Unix utilities. The only difference is that one should use "busybox cat" command instead of simple "cat"

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 (which is "-&

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 command result in (since both are combined together) ? Thanks in Advance. EDIT: I am asking this as i dont have linux installed. Else, i could test it.

While cat does stand for "concatenate", what it actually does is simply display one or multiple files, in order of their appearance in the command line arguments to cat. The common pattern to view the contents of a file on Linux or *nix systems is: cat The main difference between cat and Git's cat-file is that it only displays a single file (hence the -file part). Git's cat-file doesn't ...

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:

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

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.

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