Subject: Re: cat(1) question: multiple "-"s
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/18/2006 13:30:05
Try something simple like "cat - makefile -" ?
Don't know how much sense I can claim it makes, but it's a way of 
putting user input before and after some other file.

	Johnny

Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
>  From cat(1):
> 
>      The cat utility reads files sequentially, writing them to the standard
>      output.  The file operands are processed in command line order.  A 
> single
>      dash represents the standard input, and may appear multiple times 
> in the
>      file list.
> 
> What sense do multiple appearances of '-' make on the cat command line,
> how is that supposed to work?
> 
> 
>  - Hubert

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