Questions tagged [cat]
cat is a standard Unix utility used for concatenating files or printing specific file on the standard output.
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How to extract lines knowing start and end lines
I have a file with 1 million lines.
I want to extract lines from line 10001 to 500000
How to do this?
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Cat *.ext not combining all video files inside folder
I would like to combine all video files without having to specify each file individually.
Each .MP4 file is 4GB.
cat *.MP4 > 11.04.2019_Market_Road.MP4 > File Size 26.5GB, only plays 8 ...
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How to display lines in a file like ls displays files in a directory? [duplicate]
I have a long file with short lines (one word) f that I would like to inspect.
It would fit on the screen if it wasn't for the newlines.
If the data was already arranged in columns I could just do ...
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Why use cat to view a file? [closed]
It seems that the purpose of cat is to concatenate several files. However, many people still use cat instead of less (or a similar program like more) to display a file. See, for example, the GNU m4 ...
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Why do cat and more wrap lines differently?
It seems that more adds line breaks, whereas cat does not. As a result cat results will change to fit the terminal window if I resize the window, whereas more results stay put with the line breaks ...
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“nohup cat” — write the complete content to the log file rather to concatenate file
I used the below command
nohup cat fastp-filtered/OZBenth*_R1.fastp.fq.gz > fastp-filtered-merged4racon/merge_R1.fq.gz > merge_R1.out.log 2>&1 &
but unfortunately, the output went ...
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cat shows nothing
My team is working on a CI environment.
A ko file, named x.ko, is always generated from the CI environment at a regular time everyday and its type is ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable.
Today, I found that ...
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How to copy the rest of lines of a file to another file [duplicate]
I have the string xyz which is a line in file1.txt, I want to copy all the lines after xyz in file1.txt to a new file file2.txt. How can I achieve this?
I know about cat command. But how to specify ...
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Is there a quickest way to count lines in file which is of 4TB in linux?
Actually I have 4 TB of Txt file as Exported from Teradata records and I want to know How many records are there in that file.
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Getting awk value and outputting to a file [duplicate]
I need to get a value from a log file which I am getting using awk at the moment. I can get the number printing on the console but when I try to put that value into a new file nothing happens. Here is ...
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insert EOF statement before the last line of file
I want to insert this
cat <<EOF >> /etc/security/limits.conf
* soft nproc 65535
* hard nproc 65535
* soft nofile 65535
* hard ...
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cat shows file contents, gedit and vim show blank file
I was planning on building a current logging device with an Arduino, and tried starting off with the basic SD-card write example from the Arduino IDE sketchbook.
The Serial console showed no errors, ...
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Can't see the contents of a data file in terminal
I have downloaded a number of input files from the NASDAQ website (for example ftp://emi.nasdaq.com/ITCH/01302018.NASDAQ_ITCH50.gz) After decompressing (I double click on a Mac) I can't see the file ...
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Different behaviours of sudo [duplicate]
I created a file with sudo like this:
sudo touch abc.txt
Which understandably set the owner to root. Now when I try to edit the file via vi using sudo, it works:
sudo vi abc.txt #works
But when I ...
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How to merge files in Linux while deleting the source files
I have 2 large files (of about 27 GB each), which I need to merge. They were originally one whole ZIP file, but I split it. The problem with the cat command is that it creates a new file which has the ...
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cat: append a text file in another folder as Dolphin action
How can I append an md-file to another md-file in a subfolder as Dolphin action?
I tried cat %U >> subfolder-name/%u, but I get this error message:
cannot create subfolder-name//path/to/md-...
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Why can I not access a file named `-` when quoting? [duplicate]
I have a file called -.
I want to display its contents.
One way is to do
cat ./-
since cat - reads from standard input. However, why are cat "-" and cat '-' also interpreted by the shell as cat -?
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Combine large amounts of files inside a directory
I have a large amount of files within a single directory, currently 10,804 files. the amount of files can float between 5 and 100,000.
I am looking for a way to combine every 250 separate files into ...
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Merge Lines that start with special Character into new File
the following Situation:
I have about 2000 Files that are named like "dens_Run0_set0.#" where # is some Number and they are filled like this
1 0 1.000000e-01 6.3043370127282594e-01 -9....
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Replace the part of lines in multiple files matching a pattern with lines from another file in order [duplicate]
I want to replace the part of lines matching a pattern from multiple files from the lines in order from another file, i have up to 500 txt files, with structure:
test1.txt, test2.txt, test3.txt...
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Removing control M characters from a given file and to remove newline character if it is the only character in the entire file
We have a file named as abc.txt and its a empty file. Due to some junk or control M characters, the file size is populated as 5 byte file. In order to have clean file we are using dos2unix command to ...
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navigating forward in more pager using f
It is given in the man page of more that f is used to skip forward k screenful of text(default to 1).I saved a very long file using cat and used more to show it on the screen page by page but when i ...
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How to use bash cat * to wrap? [duplicate]
ls /proc/
1 10984 11246 131 144 167 2099 31788 4805 5375 6762 7594 8111 8722 consoles
10 10993 11247 1314 14400 168 21 32 4807 5379 6771 76 8112 ...
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What is the equivalent (programmatically) of cat /dev/something > file.txt [closed]
I'm copying a video from a camera stream using a command cat /dev/video0 > file.mpeg
This works perfectly, however I want too break up the file into smaller chunks... So I've been waiting pressing ...
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Pipe file containing list of images to sxiv and reflect changes immediadly
Suppose I have a file images.txt which contains for example
image1.jpg
image2.jpg
image3.jpg
Then I pipe the images.txt to sxiv and I want that the thumbnail view reflects the changes immediately. ...
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join all text files in subfolders in ubuntu into a single file
I have many folders/subfolders with text files in them.
Is there any way to iterate all of the subfolders and join all the files into a single large file?
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How to let process continue running even after disconnecting ssh?
I have a Linux based router that I’m trying to “control” with a home automation controller. On my automation controller I’m able to utilize a ‘two way strings’ driver to send a string to the Linux ...
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grep and cut text from unstructured file?
From below 3lines I need to grep and cut jar file name only.
How to grep jar name from the line and cut from there.
Downloading:https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-aop/5....
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Need to iterate through subdirectories, concatenating files, with an iterative number
I'm trying to concatenate files from three different subdirectories into one file. The names of the files in each subdirectory are exactly the same. I'd like to use a loop to iterate through the ...
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How to print the first line which include special word [closed]
Print the first 123 below XXX
AAA
BCB
DDD
123
123
XXX
CCC
123
123
MSM
123
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How to echo content into a series of new file generated by cat
I would like to write a loop to generate 22 R scripts with contents generated in echo. What went wrong in this loop that I could not get the 22 files with the corresponding content?
I tested echo "i ...
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What does cat of a tar archive show? [closed]
I was doing a penetration testing capture the flag training exercise and found a file called "backup". I checked the file type of "backup" and saw it was gzip compressed. I decompressed it to a file ...
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How to take number of bytes transmitted and received from /net/proc/dev
I want to take the number of bytes transmitted and received from /proc/net/dev in this format: num_ofbytesTransmitted,num_ofbytesReceived.
This was my approach:
cat /net/proc/dev | grep enp0s3 | cut -...
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How does `cat` work so that it allows reading a file line as an array element? [duplicate]
In bash, we can read an file into an array, so that each line in the file becomes an element of the array.
$ arr=( $(cat myfile) )
I was wonder how cat works so that it allows reading a file line as ...
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How should I output the contents of a file to terminal without using cat? [duplicate]
I've been hearing talk of UUOC, "Useless Use of cat", lately, and it seems like the consensus is that cat should really only be used when concatenating multiple files. This has me wondering, is there ...
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combine files that share a similar characters
I have a folder with hundreds of files. These files are score files for 26 environmental variables across 510 genotype files. For example in the examples below, _s2. is the second environmental ...
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cat is stuck on a specific file
I have a python script that generates a file (cap.pcap).
when I execute cat on it, it gets stuck forever (doesn't display anything).
I tried to run:
The commands file, hd and vi. They work properly.
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Change permisions of a file with my cat's help
root@system:~# less myfile
-bash: /bin/less: Input/output error
The root filesystem is dead. But my cat is still alive (in my memory):
root@system:~# cat > /tmp/somefile
C^d
root@system:~#
He's ...
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How to stop cat command from outputting file name if it's piped to another command?
I'm trying to learn regular expressions, and so I created a file with some characters in it. When I use the cat command and pipe it to rgrep command with an argument to filter out text, the resulting ...
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Store a file on server with curl command using post method like scp? [duplicate]
Like this:
cat tmp.txt | curl --post domain.com/file-to-store
I want to store content of tmp.txt on my machine to server using only terminal.
Is it possible?
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How does `cat`'s I/O model differ from that of other utilities?
From the output of stdbuf --help (GNU):
Usage: stdbuf OPTION... COMMAND
Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams.
...
NOTE: If COMMAND adjusts the buffering of its ...
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make find search in alphabetical order
I am currently using a short find command in order to search a number of directories (and sub-directories) for files ending in "tex" and then catting them into one coherent text. The command that I ...
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Diff outputs “binary files <file1> <file2> differ” but not the usual detail output
I would like to compare two files - "orienv" and "currenv", using the command diff.
The way I had created the two files was as follow:
Createing the "currenv" file
$cat /proc/1/environ >> ...
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Concatenate multiple zipped files, skipping header lines in all but the first file
I have a collection of gzipped files that I want to combine into a single file. They each have identical format. I want to keep the header information from only the first file and skip it in the ...
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How to `touch` and `cat` file named `-` [duplicate]
How do I use GNU touch to update a file called -?
How do I use GNU cat to display a file called -?
I'm running:
% cat --version | head -n1
cat (GNU coreutils) 8.29
% touch --version | head -n1
...
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Fully show all files in a directory — but with some spacing between them
In CentOS with Bash 3.2.52 I desire to fully-show all files in say current dir:
cat *
All files' outputs are displaying but they are totally juxtaposed one to another...
I lack some cosmetic ...
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How to read a file using sudo? [closed]
As part of an lab that I am doing titled "sudo", one of the questions is, "What is the password in the secret.txt file?".
When I try cat secret.txt I get a permission denied message.
When I try sudo ...
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cat and pipe vs. redirection [duplicate]
What's the difference between these two commands?
cat /proc/uptime | awk '{print $1}'
< /proc/uptime awk '{print $1}'
Specifically, how does the second command work? Doesn't the redirection ...
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How to concatenate only identical file names within two folders to one file?
I have fasta.qz sequence files with identical names, but in two different folders that I need to concatenate (concatenate always those two with identical names only!).
The directory structure looks ...
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Ubuntu bash echo “$PASSWORD” | sudo -S WID=$(cat /var/lib/FILE)
/var/lib/FILE root:root 0600 (One line of text)
How can I read the /var/lib/FILE into $WID
echo "$PASSWORD" | sudo -S WID=$(cat /var/lib/FILE) not working for me.
