Can someone please shed some light on an equivalent method of executing something like "cat file1 -" in Linux ? What I want to do is to give control to the keyboard stream (which is "-" in linux) once the content of file1 is displayed.
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You can't achieve that in Windows using a single command, however you can use 2 commands on a single line:
type file.txt && type CON
This will print the contents of "file.txt" and if that command was successful it will give control to the keyboard stream (using a special keyword called CON).
Tip: To stop, hit Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Z and Enter.
Remember to replace "file.txt" with your file!
Sources:
type command
c:\type myfile.txt
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