Subversion offers the svn cat command which retrieves a file as it existed in a particular revision number and displays it.
Sample usage:
<code>$ svn cat -r 3 http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/readme.txt
This is a README file.
INSTRUCTIONS
============
Step 1: Do this.
Step 2: Do that.
$
</code>
<code>$ svn cat -r 3 http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/readme.txt
This is a README file.
INSTRUCTIONS
============
Step 1: Do this.
Step 2: Do that.
$
</code>
$ svn cat -r 3 http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/readme.txt
This is a README file.
INSTRUCTIONS
============
Step 1: Do this.
Step 2: Do that.
$
I understand what it is doing and how to use it, but I have a difficult time recalling it much of the time since I can’t figure out what it is representing/ abbreviating.
Is it just paying homage to our furry feline friends? Does it stand for capture?
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It comes from the Unix concatenate command – cat
The cat program is a standard Unix utility that will output the contents of a specific file and can be used to concatenate and list files. The name is an abbreviation of catenate, a synonym of concatenate.
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