cat Flashcards
-A or –show-all
Show all control characters. Equivalent to -vET
-b and –number-nonblank
Number all nonempty output lines starting with 1
-e
Displays control characters except for TAB. Equivalent to -vE
-E and –show-end
Display a $ after the end of each line. The \r\n combination is shown as ^M$
-n and –number
Number all lines. This option is ignored if -b is in effect
–s and –squeeze-blank
Suppress repeated adjacent blank lines; output just one empty instead of several
-t
Shows control characters except for LFD. Equivalent to -vT
-T and –show-tabs
Display TAB characters as ^I
-u
Ignored for POSIX compatibility
-v and –show-nonprinting
Display control characters except for LFD and TAB using ^ notation and precede characters that have the high bit set with M-