rscat

GNU cat(1) clone implemented in Rust


Keywords
concatenate, cat, command-line, file-handling
License
CNRI-Python-GPL-Compatible

Documentation

rscat

Build Status

Simple clone of the GNU coreutils program cat(1) implemented in Rust. Give it a list of files and it will print their contents to stdout.

Building

Building from source requires Rust and Cargo (install them via rustup). In the top-level source directory, run cargo build. To install it on your computer, run cargo install. The default install path is in your ~/.cargo/bin directory.

You can also fetch and install rscat from crates.io with cargo install rscat.

Running

Usage: rscat file1 file2 ...
Prints the contents of one or more files to stdout.

  -h, --help     print a brief help message
  -v, --version  output the program version number and license information

License

This program is released under the terms of the GNU GPL version 3 or any later version. You may modify it or redistribute it freely according to the conditions of the license.