can we use cat command as an editor ..???

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can we use cat command as an editor ..???..

Answer / san

No. cat command is only ti list/View contains of File

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can we use cat command as an editor ..???..

Answer / rupali

The cat utility concatenates and display files. It also
can be used as a primitive editor for creation one liners
or adding a line to the config file. There is also a
version of cat called zcat which performs operation similar
to uncompress -c or for GNU version gunzip -c on each
input file

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can we use cat command as an editor ..???..

Answer / mayank

yes
id file doesn't exists
cat >file
my name is sopderman
r u serious
ctrl+d

cat >>file
no, i am not
ctrl+d

cat >file
overwriting file
ctrl+d

cat -n file> file2 --add line numbers

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can we use cat command as an editor ..???..

Answer / shakti

no we can not use cat as editor because it do not give
the fasilty of editing,modification in the content of the
file

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can we use cat command as an editor ..???..

Answer / venkatesh

cat command is not an editor because it is used to create
files and display file components and it is a internal
command in unix...

cat hi this is venkat@cec

it displays the text as entered above..

hi this is venkat@cec

cat>venkat

and

cat>>venkat

by using that format we used to use in unix.......

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can we use cat command as an editor ..???..

Answer / riyaz

Cat is not an editor.. its a command which has readonly
permision.

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can we use cat command as an editor ..???..

Answer / kesava swamy pindi

Yes, we can use 'cat' command as an editor.

Ex: cat > names.txt
hai
hello
ctrl+c
Here, iam creating a file called 'names.txt'. If this file
already exists, the old contents of the file will be
overwritten; else new empty file is created and data is
placed in this file.

Also, we can append new content to existing file using cat
command.

Ex: cat >> names.txt
bye
crtl+c

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can we use cat command as an editor ..???..

Answer / niranjan

cat is unix command not an editor.
Editor is one which provides various mode like input mode,command mode, and last line mode as vi editor..
cat displays the content of file if file exist else it creates
the new file and takes input from standard input(i.e, keyboard)

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can we use cat command as an editor ..???..

Answer / giridhar

Yes,We can use cat as an editor to see code

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can we use cat command as an editor ..???..

Answer / no

vi command

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