> Prints on the screen (or to the standard output) the contents of files. Simple like that. While it's not exactly false, it's also not a good explanation for

> Prints on the screen (or to the standard output) the contents of files. Simple like that. While it's not exactly false, it's also not a good explanation for cat. If you just want to operate on the contents of a single file, you should use redirection. The cat utility is for concatenating files.