This program will display text files to the screen so that you may read them. It will also put several files into a another file that you specify with the redirection operator ">" .
cat filename filename
Cat assumes you are referring to the screen when you use it.
Therefore, if you want cat to put the information in a file you
must use the redirection operator ">"
Example to the screen:
If you type in the command cat prog1.c , the
contents of the file prog1.c will scroll across the screen.
Example to a file:
Also you can type cat file.1 file.2 > file.3 and
a file called file.3 will be created. The first
file to be stored in file.3 will be file.1 and then
file.2 .
However you may cat 30 ,50 or 100 files into one file
if you like. Just type cat with all the files
you would like cat to append into the file. Make sure
that after you finish typing in all the file(s) you want
appended, you use the redirection operator and then give
it a file to append all the files into.