Implementation of the unix cat functionality using NodeJS. cat in unix allows the user to output the content a file to the terminal with a variety of options such as reading by line, reading the entire file, concatenating two files together, or printing the file to the terminal with or without numbered lines/blank spaces.
Please clone the repo below:
https://github.com/ASproson/cat_tool.git
When in the repo directory you can run the following commands on the test files:
node main.js readline test.txt
node main.js cat test.txt test2.txt
node main.js cat test.txt | head -n3
node main.js number test.txt
node main.js number test.txt -b
node main.js number test.txt | head -n3
sed G test3.txt | node main.js number test3.txt -b | head -n4
sed G test3.txt | node main.js number test3.txt | head -n4
