1GFAL-CAT(1)                 General Commands Manual                GFAL-CAT(1)
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NAME

6       gfal-cat - concatenate a file and print on the standard output
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SYNOPSIS

9       gfal-cat [ OPTION ]...  FILE
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DESCRIPTION

13       gfal-cat Concatenate file to standard output. It simply opens the spec‐
14       ified file and prints all its contents to stdout.
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OPTIONS

17       -h, --help
18              show help about the command.
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20       -V, --version
21              output version information and exit.
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23       -v, --verbose
24              verbose mode. Repeat up to 3 times for the most verbose mode.
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26       -D, --definition DEFINITION
27              define properties for gfal2. Definitions have the following syn‐
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30       -t, --timeout TIMEOUT
31              global  timeout for the execution of the command. Command is in‐
32              terrupted if time expires before it finishes. Note: A grace  pe‐
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35       -E, --cert CERT
36              user   certificate.   (This   option  takes  effect  only  after
37              X509_USER_PROXY     environment     variable     and     default
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40       --key KEY
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43       -4     forces  Gfal2 to use IPv4 addresses only. (Option valid only for
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49       -C, --client-info CLIENT_INFO
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EXAMPLES

61       gfal-cat
62              srm://endpoint.cern.ch/path/file
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FILES

66       /etc/gfal2.d/*
67              All configuration files in this directory affect the behavior of
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AUTHORS

72       Duarte Meneses <duarte.meneses@cern.ch>
73       Adrien Devresse <adrien.devresse@cern.ch>
74       Alejandro Alvarez Ayllon <alejandro.alvarez.ayllon@cern.ch>
75       Andrea Manzi <andrea.manzi@cern.ch>
76       Mihai Patrascoiu <mihai.patrascoiu@cern.ch>
77       Joao Lopes <joao.pedro.batista.lopes@cern.ch>
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SEE ALSO

81       gfal-cat(1), gfal-chmod(1),  gfal-copy(1),  gfal-ls(1),  gfal-mkdir(1),
82       gfal-rename(1),  gfal-rm(1),  gfal-save(1),  gfal-stat(1), gfal-sum(1),
83       gfal-token(1) gfal-xattr(1)
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