cat - Concatenate object content to stdout
Synopsis
gsutil cat [-h] url...
Description
The cat command outputs the contents of one or more URLs to stdout. It is equivalent to doing:
gsutil cp url... -
(The final ‘-‘ causes gsutil to stream the output to stdout.)
Options
| -h |
Prints short header for each object. For example: gsutil cat -h gs://bucket/meeting_notes/2012_Feb/*.txt
This would print a header with the object name before the contents of each text object that matched the wildcard. |
| -r range |
Causes gsutil to output just the specified byte range of the object. Ranges are can be of these forms: start-end (e.g., -r 256-5939)
start- (e.g., -r 256-)
-numbytes (e.g., -r -5)
where offsets start at 0, start-end means to return bytes start through end (inclusive), start- means to return bytes start through the end of the object, and -numbytes means to return the last numbytes of the object. For example: gsutil cat -r 256-939 gs://bucket/object
returns bytes 256 through 939, while: gsutil cat -r -5 gs://bucket/object
returns the final 5 bytes of the object. |