github.com/ncw/rclone@v1.48.1-0.20190724201158-a35aa1360e3e/docs/content/commands/rclone_cat.md (about) 1 --- 2 date: 2019-06-20T16:09:42+01:00 3 title: "rclone cat" 4 slug: rclone_cat 5 url: /commands/rclone_cat/ 6 --- 7 ## rclone cat 8 9 Concatenates any files and sends them to stdout. 10 11 ### Synopsis 12 13 14 rclone cat sends any files to standard output. 15 16 You can use it like this to output a single file 17 18 rclone cat remote:path/to/file 19 20 Or like this to output any file in dir or subdirectories. 21 22 rclone cat remote:path/to/dir 23 24 Or like this to output any .txt files in dir or subdirectories. 25 26 rclone --include "*.txt" cat remote:path/to/dir 27 28 Use the --head flag to print characters only at the start, --tail for 29 the end and --offset and --count to print a section in the middle. 30 Note that if offset is negative it will count from the end, so 31 --offset -1 --count 1 is equivalent to --tail 1. 32 33 34 ``` 35 rclone cat remote:path [flags] 36 ``` 37 38 ### Options 39 40 ``` 41 --count int Only print N characters. (default -1) 42 --discard Discard the output instead of printing. 43 --head int Only print the first N characters. 44 -h, --help help for cat 45 --offset int Start printing at offset N (or from end if -ve). 46 --tail int Only print the last N characters. 47 ``` 48 49 See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here. 50 51 ### SEE ALSO 52 53 * [rclone](/commands/rclone/) - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends. 54