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Development Tools Console Foundations Getting Started with the Console Reading Files

rajbee
rajbee
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rajbee
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Does cat actually concatenate the files and store the copy somewhere or just print them all together on the screen ?

Please help me.

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rtholen
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rtholen
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It does concatenate the files. cat file_a file_b concatenates them to standard output (the console). cat file_a file_b > file_c concatenates them into file_c. Try it with some simple text files.