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Re:Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day by EchoAbstract on Thursday September 06, 2012 @12:10PM (#4484788)
According to the 1st Edition and 6th Edition manual pages: NAME cat -- concatenate and print

See: http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/cat http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/1/cat

I'm pretty sure based on the timeline of pipe (~1973, roughly V4) that the cat command (~1971 V1) predates pipes.

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Re:Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day by ralph on Thursday September 06, 2012 @02:40PM (#4485543)
Fortunately they fixed that errant man page. :-) http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/cat
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