- 1 year ago
Getting unix command CAT to work on Windows
The cat
command is a Unix/Linux command that is used to concatenate and display the contents of one or more files. While cat
is not available natively on Windows, you can use the type
command to achieve similar functionality.
To use the type
command on Windows, simply open a Command Prompt or PowerShell window and enter the following command:
bashtype filename1.txt filename2.txt
Replace filename1.txt
and filename2.txt
with the names of the files you want to concatenate. You can specify multiple file names separated by spaces to concatenate more than two files.
You can also use wildcards to concatenate all files that match a certain pattern. For example, to concatenate all files in the current directory that have a .txt
file extension, you can use the following command:
bashtype *.txt
The type
command will display the contents of the specified files in the order in which they were listed on the command line. If you want to save the concatenated output to a file, you can use the >
redirect operator to redirect the output to a file. For example:
luatype filename1.txt filename2.txt > output.txt
This will concatenate the contents of filename1.txt
and filename2.txt
and save the output to output.txt
.