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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. …

  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. …

  3. 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 …

  4. 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 …

  5. 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

  6. What does "cat -" mean? Linux operators - Stack Overflow

    Mar 10, 2021 · If cat - doesn't stop it's because the symbol "-" is for parameter. And you run cat with no parameter. Actually, it didn't run indefinitely; the shell waits for you to enter the end of …

  7. 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 ...

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

    Oct 18, 2016 · How to get the last line of a file using cat command Asked 9 years, 2 months ago Modified 4 years, 5 months ago Viewed 133k times

  10. How do I read the first line of a file using cat? - Stack Overflow

    May 24, 2011 · How do I read the first line of a file using cat? Asked 14 years, 7 months ago Modified 5 years, 2 months ago Viewed 415k times