cat food Display the food file on the screen.

cat scratch fever Join the files scratch and fever and then displayt he result on the screen.

cat eats bird > DetailsAt11 Join the files eats and bird and save them in the file DetailsAt11.

Note that the original files that cat joins are not modified. For example, say the file eats contained these lines:

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat.

Also say the file bird contained these lines:

They took some honey, and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

After the preceding command, neither file would change, but a new file called DetailsAt11 would be created, containing all four lines:

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat.
They took some honey, and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

For more information on the cat command, see the cat manual.

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