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There is a cat command and there is a sed command. UNIX, Linux, and similar systems have utility names that are case sensitive. The cat utility cannot be invoked using the name CAT and the sed utility cannot be invoked using the name SED.

Making us guess at what you might have typed and now showing us the exact error message produced by your shell when you tried to get a command to work makes it impossible for us to give you any reasonable advice.

Tell us what operating system you're using.

Tell us what shell you're using.

Show us the exact name of your .key file and show us its contents.

Show us the exact command you tried to use to read data from that file.

Tell us what you expected to happen when you issued that command and show us the exact output that was produced when you issued that command.

Without all of the above requested basic information, we have little chance of making suggestions that will really help you do whatever it is that you are trying to do. Please help us help you.

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fc-cat

FC-CAT(1)																 FC-CAT(1)

NAME

       fc-cat - read font information cache files

SYNOPSIS

       fc-cat [ -rvVh ]  [ --recurse ]	[ --verbose ]  [ --version ]  [ --help ]

	[  [ fonts-cache-%version%-files ]  [ dirs ] ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       fc-cat reads the font information from cache files or related to font directories and emits it in ASCII form.

OPTIONS

       This  program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
       below.

       -r     Recurse into subdirectories.

       -v     Be verbose.

       -h     Show summary of options.

       -V     Show version of the program and exit.

SEE ALSO

       fc-cache(1) fc-list(1) fc-match(1) fc-pattern(1) fc-query(1) fc-scan(1)

       The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Patrick Lam <plam@mit.edu>.

								   Aug 13, 2008 							 FC-CAT(1)

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