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date: 2020-05-25T12:06:00+01:00
title: "rclone cat"
description: "Concatenates any files and sends them to stdout."
slug: rclone_cat
url: /commands/rclone_cat/
# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/cat/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"
---
# 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.
```
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).
--tail int Only print the last N characters.
```
See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.
## SEE ALSO
* [rclone](/commands/rclone/) - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.