for one, wouldn't either less or more (or even view) serve better than cat? I'm assuming it's more of an interactive session you're looking for...? While find does allow for its own -exec parameter, xargs is faster by a long-shot.
However, it reads as though your problem is more so with the terminal than the shell commands...
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find command works correctly and when I copy and paste the output of that with a preceeding 'cat'
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Have you tried to wrap the whole mess into a simple script like the following:
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for item in $(find . -type f -name "developer.txt" ) ;do cat $item ;done
This will just do a massive screen dump, which I doubt is what you'd want... Swapping in other utils, like less, more or view will retain some composure and allow you to view and/or exit the file(s) individually.
