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author | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-12-23 09:22:06 +0000 |
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committer | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-12-23 09:22:06 +0000 |
commit | cce30d6dfc41ba008ea360b1a021a8142d321192 (patch) | |
tree | ea8fa672e024db070f019b82cace0f51028b6ab1 | |
parent | 3b2e9eb59bdc409c7bd5e4a7bc7ef90f1dba1400 (diff) | |
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Fix markup.
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diff --git a/bin/cat/cat.1 b/bin/cat/cat.1 index e3c4b7e..2608247 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 |