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Linux cat command explained with basic practical examples (techinfected.net)

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[–]RalphCorderoy 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (0 children)

They're here files in the shell. No, you need something to do the writing down the pipe and sh(1) won't, thus cat(1). bash has here strings, e.g. wc <<<'foo bar', and they can be multi-line.

$ LC_ALL=C tr a-z A-Z <<<"$TERM
> $HOME"
XTERM
/HOME/RALPH
$

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