.TH CAT 1 "July 16, 1986" "\(co 1980 Gary Perlman" "|STAT" "UNIX User's Manual"
.SH NAME
cat \- concatenate files by printing them one after another
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B cat
[files] [-]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I cat
prints its argument files one after the other.
The special file name - is taken to mean the standard input;
this allows inserting the standard input in between a
series of files.
If not files are named, the standard input is read.
.SH EXAMPLES
.nf
cat a b c   # print files a, b, and c on the standard output
echo ----- | cat a - b   # print a, a line, and b
.fi
.SH NOTE
This program is supplied for systems that do not have
.I cat
or some other program to join a series of files.
It is a bare bones version with no options.