Question

Which command is used for displaying contents of a file?

(a) cp

(b) rm

(c) cat

(d) mkdir

I had been asked this question in my homework.

Question is taken from Displaying and Creating Files: cat Command topic in portion Handling Ordinary Files of Unix

Answer 1

The correct option is (c) cat

For explanation: cat command is used to display the contents of a file. For displaying the contents, simply invoke the cat command with the filename (whose contents are to be displayed) as an argument. For example, if abd.txt file contains “HELLO WORLD” then,