The entirety of plan 9 cat is just 36 lines. That's true unix philosophy. Small tools that do one thing well which when combined produce more powerful tools. Th

The entirety of plan 9 cat is just 36 lines. That's true unix philosophy. Small tools that do one thing well which when combined produce more powerful tools. The -v flag is silly bloat as cat is nothing more than a program which catenates files.