Hi RHEL Team,

 

I was working with cat command and testing its functionality. I learnt in one of the manuals that if multiple files are specified, the contents of the files are concatenated in the output, but line numbering is restarted at 1 for each file. However in an experiment I found this not to be true.

[root@sai6 mayanktest]# ls -l aa bb

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10 May 29 17:15 aa

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22 May 29 17:18 bb

[root@sai6 mayanktest]# cat -b bb aa

     1  a

     2  b

     3  c

     4  d

     5  e

 

 

     6  f

     7  g

     8  h

     9  i

    10  j

    11  1

    12  2

    13  3

    14  4

15  5

Here, we can see that the numbering does not restarts with the new file contents.

 

I look forward to your response.

 

Regards

Mayank