"You may not have a furry animal at home purring atop your monitor, but here's an instance where you might want to keep a cat near your computer. A SearchEnterpriseLinux.com user recently asked us for more information about the 'cat' command. Abbreviated from the word 'concatenate,' which means to link things together, cat is used in Linux to link file contents and output them for viewing or printing. Here, two of our resident experts, Nigel McFarlane and Kenneth Milberg, explain how cat works, and how you can put this simple, powerful command to work for you..."