cat

Unix utility that concatenates and lists files
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cat

Summary

cat is a standard UNIX utility or command[1]. cat ranks in the top 10% of standard_unix_utility_or_command entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (182 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • cat's image is recorded as Cpuinfo about Intel Celeron M 410.png[3].
  • cat's instance of is recorded as standard UNIX utility or command[4].
  • concatenation is named after cat[5].
  • cat's part of is recorded as GNU Core Utilities[6].
  • cat's has use is recorded as concatenation[7].
  • cat's Commons category is recorded as Cat[8].
  • cat's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01g76f[9].
  • cat's described at URL is recorded as http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cat.html[10].
  • cat's different from is recorded as Cat[11].
  • cat's reads environment variable is recorded as LANG[12].
  • cat's reads environment variable is recorded as LC_ALL[13].
  • cat's reads environment variable is recorded as LC_CTYPE[14].
  • cat's reads environment variable is recorded as LC_MESSAGES[15].
  • cat's reads environment variable is recorded as NLSPATH[16].
  • cat's has command line option is recorded as u[17].
  • cat's Namuwiki ID is recorded as cat(UNIX)[18].
  • cat's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as computer-science/cat-command[19].

Body

Publication

cat's part of is recorded as GNU Core Utilities[6].

Cultural Impact

Things named for cat include Netcat[20], a software[21], founded in 1995[22].

Why It Matters

cat ranks in the top 10% of standard_unix_utility_or_command entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (182 views/month).[2] cat has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23]

Entities named for cat include Netcat[20], a software[21], founded in 1995[22].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . The Unix Programming Environment. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . GNU.org. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [20] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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