cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output
You CAN make it show some special chars, too, but that's it.
BTW, "highlighting" is quite fuzzy an action. What is "highlight"? Print in bold? in red? underlined? Do it when outputting to screen? Printing? Sending it with mail, or putting it in an HTML file? All those MAY have different mechanisms to highlight.
You could do some text modifications with e.g. sed, e.g. when outputting to a VT102 (ECMA-48) compatible terminal:
Hey All,
On commad promt of a shell..
How can we move our cursor word by word.
Like Ctrl+A takes to the starting of the command...
Any shortcut like that..?
Thanks
pbsrinivas (1 Reply)
Hi All
Can u help me..
My problem is delete word per line
sample:
cat /tmp/file.txt
monitor 192.168.1.11 Copying files in current directory 1
monitor 192.168.1.1 Copying files in current directory 2
monitor 192.168.1.12 Copying files in current directory 3
monitor 192.168.1.14... (1 Reply)
Hello,
So I sorted my file as I was supposed to:
sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 file1 | uniq > file2
and when I wrote
> cat file2
in the command line, I got what I was expecting, but in the script itself
...
sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 averages | uniq > temp
cat file2
It wrote a whole... (21 Replies)
Hello All,
I am new to this shell scripting , I wanted to modify the output of my find command such that it does not display the path but only file names , for example I am searching for the files which are modified in the last 24 hours which is
find /usr/monitor/text/ -type f -mtime... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file in which I have to separate genes from phenotype data. I have written a program as given below which prints just the gene records.
1. But I want to print all the data under each specified record to the output file. So the file has all the data like for every record. An example... (2 Replies)
Hi again :)
This is just a sample whiptail menu.
Works great, but have been trying to get the chosen value into a variable but failing pretty bad...its ther but unsure how to echo it out when needed
#! /bin/bash
#This is the menu
whiptail --title "Menu example" --menu "Choose an... (9 Replies)
I have the following script that greps lines containing "AT" from data files data1.hsq through data1000.hsq, then cuts their second column and puts in data files called perm1 through perm1000.
I want to modify the script so that instead of putting the data in separate data files perm1 through... (2 Replies)
I want to determine if there's any xml files exist & if so copy each xml to that directory. Is my code correct for doing that? I can't test my script yet. Somebody please explain it to me please?
if ]; then
#print "No Status type XML files received from server in $DIRECTORY"
else
for... (2 Replies)
Given the output below (simplified) extracted from the comparison of two curl -I commands saved in two different files, I am looking for the best approach to highlight the following scenarios in a script:
this header exists only in file1.txt but this one does not
this one exists in both cases... (1 Reply)
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cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output
SYNOPSIS
cat [OPTION] [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output.
-A, --show-all
equivalent to -vET
-b, --number-nonblank
number nonblank output lines
-e equivalent to -vE
-E, --show-ends
display $ at end of each line
-n, --number
number all output lines
-s, --squeeze-blank
never more than one single blank line
-t equivalent to -vT
-T, --show-tabs
display TAB characters as ^I
-u (ignored)
-v, --show-nonprinting
use ^ and M- notation, except for LFD and TAB
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for cat is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and cat programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info cat
should give you access to the complete manual.
cat (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 CAT(1)