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- Not to be confused with Cat Program (language), nor Cat (Language).
- For the concatenative language, see catlangwiki:Cat.
The cat program is a program that copies its standard input to its standard output. It is named after the Unix command cat, although this command is actually more powerful. The cat program is a popular problem.
cat has also been described humorously as a programming language in which every program is a quine. The programming language is obviously of very limited computational usefulness. See HQ9+ and Text.
Hello world and quine program
#!/usr/bin/cat Hello, world!
You must chmod +x the program file to make it executable:
$ chmod +x file
To execute it:
$ ./file
(assuming file is the filename of the program)
Reverse cat
Other shell commands could be used in similar way, so there is reverse variant of cat language too. Unix command line utilities in this space include both rev (reversing characters within each line) and tac (reversing the order of lines in the input; cat backwards).
$ echo '!dlrow ,olleH' | rev Hello, world!
$ (echo 'world!'; echo 'Hello,') | tac Hello, world!
$ (echo '!dlrow'; echo ',olleH') | tac | rev # or ... | rev | tac Hello, world!
A simple "reverse cat" program could simply output the bytes of the input backwards, which for a conventional newline-delimited text file has roughly the effect of rev and tac combined (except for the treatment of the file's trailing newline).
While a regular cat program requires only O(1) storage space, a reverse cat program requires O(n) storage space, so as a popular problem it is a slightly more ambitious achievement.
Implementations
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Print the user’s input.
!!brainfeed
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... Bottles of beer on the wall
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Take one down and pass it around, 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Go to the store and buy some more, 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Assemble
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brainfuck
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Befunge
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C
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){while((char c=getchar())!=EOF){putchar(c);}}
Doki!
MC[Choose Option]"Type Something!" Act 3:Monika[Var]"Cat", Input(Line 1) MC[Give Poem]Cat Act 4:Sayori[Thank You]
Dotfuck
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Deadfish+
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Español
Leer la pagina en esta wiki sobre "Cat program" Este programa simula ese programa.
ExampleFuck
Hello World FizzBuzz Polyglot Self Interpreter 99 Bottles of Beer
Fish Code
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Mesmerizer
Teto:
Ready for Performance! Quiz Time! “Type something!” Resist Teto Wait Resist Teto Send Message Output Resist Teto Shut Down…
Miku:
Ready for Performance! Wait Wait Set the Stage “Output” to Input! Wait Wait Wait Shut Down…
Pepe
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Python
print(input())
RAGE!!!
<rant> WHY DOES K MEAN THE SAME THING AS WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO TELL ME SCREAM K!!! </rant>
Regards,
Reads until the end of input, one character at a time.
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Simpl
print(usrinp())
SpoilerFuck
,.,
Truths-machine
truths(i, o=i out(o))
Tol
toltoLToLTOlTOL
Unary (compressed)
56623
Unary
000000000 ... (a lot of chars omitted) 000000000
Vegetable Juice
You like it, don’t you? “How long is your string?:” “Length” flavored Vegetable Juice is on sale now for 200 yen! Come on! Come on! I have decided now that Length must love this drink! Aggressively Advertise Vegetable Juice at 5% off for 17 Yen Length times! You like it, don’t you? “Give Miku a Value between 0 and 255:” “Cat” flavored Vegetable Juice is on sale now for 200 yen! Come on! Come on! I have decided now that Cat must love this drink! You like it, don’t you? “Do 0 if you want number, 1 if you want ASCII.” “ASCII” flavored Vegetable Juice is on sale now for 200 yen! Come on! Come on! I have decided now that ASCII must love this drink! I’ve decided, ASCII=0 Aaaaaaaaaa! Cat! I’ve decided just now. Now drink it! Cat! So drink it! All sold out!
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