github.com/10XDev/rclone@v1.52.3-0.20200626220027-16af9ab76b2a/docs/content/commands/rclone_cat.md (about)

     1  ---
     2  title: "rclone cat"
     3  description: "Concatenates any files and sends them to stdout."
     4  slug: rclone_cat
     5  url: /commands/rclone_cat/
     6  # autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/cat/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"
     7  ---
     8  # rclone cat
     9  
    10  Concatenates any files and sends them to stdout.
    11  
    12  ## Synopsis
    13  
    14  
    15  rclone cat sends any files to standard output.
    16  
    17  You can use it like this to output a single file
    18  
    19      rclone cat remote:path/to/file
    20  
    21  Or like this to output any file in dir or its subdirectories.
    22  
    23      rclone cat remote:path/to/dir
    24  
    25  Or like this to output any .txt files in dir or its subdirectories.
    26  
    27      rclone --include "*.txt" cat remote:path/to/dir
    28  
    29  Use the --head flag to print characters only at the start, --tail for
    30  the end and --offset and --count to print a section in the middle.
    31  Note that if offset is negative it will count from the end, so
    32  --offset -1 --count 1 is equivalent to --tail 1.
    33  
    34  
    35  ```
    36  rclone cat remote:path [flags]
    37  ```
    38  
    39  ## Options
    40  
    41  ```
    42        --count int    Only print N characters. (default -1)
    43        --discard      Discard the output instead of printing.
    44        --head int     Only print the first N characters.
    45    -h, --help         help for cat
    46        --offset int   Start printing at offset N (or from end if -ve).
    47        --tail int     Only print the last N characters.
    48  ```
    49  
    50  See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.
    51  
    52  ## SEE ALSO
    53  
    54  * [rclone](/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
    55