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Nihanth p
Courses Plus Student 554 Pointswhat is cat hello.txt
why we are using cat hello.txt
2 Answers
Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsThe command cat prints the content of a file.
Csaba Kapus
Courses Plus Student 6,103 PointsHi Nihanth p,
The reason to use cat command is simple. It will print out the content of the hello.txt to the console. So you can see what is inside of that file. The cat command only works on files.