GVFS-CAT

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NAME

gvfs-cat - Concatenate files

SYNOPSIS

gvfs-cat [OPTION...] [LOCATION...]

DESCRIPTION

gvfs-cat

concatenates the given files and prints them to the standard output.

gvfs-cat works just like the traditional cat utility, but using gvfs locations instead of local files: for example you can use something like smb://server/resource/file.txt as location.

Note: just pipe through cat if you need its formatting options like -n, -T or other.

OPTIONS

The following options are understood:

-?, --help

: Prints a short help text and exits.

--version

: Shows the version number and exits.

EXIT STATUS

On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.