rclone/docs/content/commands/rclone_cat.md

title	description	slug	url	versionIntroduced
rclone cat	Concatenates any files and sends them to stdout.	rclone_cat	/commands/rclone_cat/	v1.33

rclone cat

Concatenates any files and sends them to stdout.

Synopsis

rclone cat sends any files to standard output.

You can use it like this to output a single file

rclone cat remote:path/to/file

Or like this to output any file in dir or its subdirectories.

rclone cat remote:path/to/dir

Or like this to output any .txt files in dir or its subdirectories.

rclone --include "*.txt" cat remote:path/to/dir

Use the --head flag to print characters only at the start, --tail for the end and --offset and --count to print a section in the middle. Note that if offset is negative it will count from the end, so --offset -1 --count 1 is equivalent to --tail 1.

Use the --separator flag to print a separator value between files. Be sure to shell-escape special characters. For example, to print a newline between files, use:

• bash:

  rclone --include "*.txt" --separator $'\n' cat remote:path/to/dir
  

• powershell:

  rclone --include "*.txt" --separator "`n" cat remote:path/to/dir
  

rclone cat remote:path [flags]

Options

      --count int          Only print N characters (default -1)
      --discard            Discard the output instead of printing
      --head int           Only print the first N characters
  -h, --help               help for cat
      --offset int         Start printing at offset N (or from end if -ve)
      --separator string   Separator to use between objects when printing multiple files
      --tail int           Only print the last N characters

See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

SEE ALSO

• rclone - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.