bk-cat - (unknown subject)

NAME
bk cat − concatenate and display file contents

SYNOPSIS
bk cat file [file ...]

DESCRIPTION
bk cat is used to send one or more files to the standard output. It is used when a file’s contents are wanted but the caller does not know if the file is or is not under revision control or is or is not checked out.

bk cat differs from the standard UNIX cat command in two ways: a) it does not support any of the UNIX cat options, and b) if a file is specified which does not exist, but a corresponding sfile does exist, the most recent version of sfile is sent to standard output.

The following shell script emulates the bk cat command:

for i in "$@"
do if [ -f $i ]
then cat $i
else # ignore error messages
bk get -kp $i 2>/dev/null
fi
done

CATEGORY
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