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authorRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2006-12-23 09:22:06 +0000
committerRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2006-12-23 09:22:06 +0000
commit17bba29b9bcdb67c59fac9c3ed68228647c59f44 (patch)
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parentd7102ae53c6ee45825229103afabaa344c1e06d7 (diff)
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-rw-r--r--bin/cat/cat.122
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/bin/cat/cat.1 b/bin/cat/cat.1
index e3c4b7e317bd..2608247e0c95 100644
--- a/bin/cat/cat.1
+++ b/bin/cat/cat.1
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ The command:
.Dl "cat file1"
.Pp
will print the contents of
-.Ar file1
+.Pa file1
to the standard output.
.Pp
The command:
@@ -119,13 +119,13 @@ The command:
.Dl "cat file1 file2 > file3"
.Pp
will sequentially print the contents of
-.Ar file1
+.Pa file1
and
-.Ar file2
+.Pa file2
to the file
-.Ar file3 ,
+.Pa file3 ,
truncating
-.Ar file3
+.Pa file3
if it already exists.
See the manual page for your shell (i.e.,
.Xr sh 1 )
@@ -136,21 +136,21 @@ The command:
.Dl "cat file1 - file2 - file3"
.Pp
will print the contents of
-.Ar file1 ,
+.Pa file1 ,
print data it receives from the standard input until it receives an
.Dv EOF
.Pq Sq ^D
character, print the contents of
-.Ar file2 ,
+.Pa file2 ,
read and output contents of the standard input again, then finally output
the contents of
-.Ar file3 .
+.Pa file3 .
Note that if the standard input referred to a file, the second dash
on the command-line would have no effect, since the entire contents of the file
would have already been read and printed by
.Nm
when it encountered the first
-.Ql \&-
+.Sq Fl
operand.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr head 1 ,
@@ -190,7 +190,9 @@ It appears to have been
Because of the shell language mechanism used to perform output
redirection, the command
.Dq Li cat file1 file2 > file1
-will cause the original data in file1 to be destroyed!
+will cause the original data in
+.Pa file1
+to be destroyed!
.Pp
The
.Nm