continuous reading from named pipe (cat or tail -f)
I have configured rsyslog to log certain log events to /dev/xconsole:
cat
How can I display syntax highlighting on a file?
Is there a variant of cat that outputs syntax-highlighted lines of code when used on a source file?
How to highlight a word in the output of “cat”?
I can do the following to see if some word is available in the output of “cat”: cat filename | grep word This filters the output and shows only those lines which contain “word”. Now, is it possible to only highlight the “word” in the output, without dropping other lines? Answers: Thank you for visiting … Read more
Is it a UUOC (useless use of cat) to redirect one file to another?
If I want to make the contents of file2 match the contents of file1, I could obviously just run cp file1 file2.
How to read dash files
How can I read a dash file from the terminal other than delimiting it with ./
cat files with directory
Is there a command to show the directory/file name when cat files?
How do I “cat and follow” a file?
A file is being sequentially downloaded by wget.
Fastest way to concatenate files
I’ve got 10k+ files totaling over 20GB that I need to concatenate into one file.
Append same text to many files using cat or echo?
How can I write the same content to many text files by using cat or echo in only one command?
How does cat ‘know’ the optimum block size to use?
From reading this, it seems that when copying data to a different hard drive, cat automatically uses the optimum block size (or very near it).