[ Thanks to Amy
Kucharik for this link. ]
“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…”