Usage of the cat command

[brainwave89]

How can I use the cat command in terminal to display the contents of a file named sunny windy day.docx?

Thanks for looking.

 

[gr8tfly]

"cat" will output the file sequentially, so it would work best with plain text. ".docx" is a Word document.

(See the man page for "cat": )

man cat

Or...

Are you asking why the file isn't recognized because of spaces in the filename? ("cat" still won't work, but the following would help when using a filename with special characters in general)

You can either enter it contained in quotes:

man "sunny windy day.docx"

Or, by using the '\' character to denote a special character:

man sunny\ windy\ day.docx

 

[jonesea]

How can I use the cat command in terminal to display the contents of a file named sunny windy day.docx?

Thanks for looking.

One way is:
cat "sunny windy day.docx"

But that's a word file, so your going to get lots of junk on the screen.

 

[brainwave89]

Many thanks gr8tfly. Cheers!

 

[dmi]

One way is:
cat "sunny windy day.docx"

But that's a word file, so your going to get lots of junk on the screen.

To display the junk as visible text
cat -v "sunny windy day.docx"