How can I print a textfile on the command prompt in Windows?

How can I print the content of a textfile on the command prompt in Windows?

In Linux I can do this with less textfile.txt, more textfile.txt or cat textfile.txt

What is the command for this in Windows?

Jonas

Posted 2010-07-12T16:58:20.050

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Answers

type textfile.txt If you want it page-by-page, more textfile.txt.

Hello71

Posted 2010-07-12T16:58:20.050

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@Joey, Why do you say that type is useless? It's very useful for piping isn't it? – Pacerier – 2015-03-20T07:33:10.773

@Pacerier, you can redirect input from a file in a shell as well. And most programs dealing with stdin also have a way of dealing with files, e.g. findstr/grep, etc. – Joey – 2015-03-20T09:00:27.757

@Joey, But it's more standard to use only stdin and stdout and ignore the file arguments. – Pacerier – 2015-03-23T08:07:51.353

6Or just more textfile.txt ... avoids a useless use of type – Joey – 2010-07-13T01:06:09.377

@Joey: Point taken. – Hello71 – 2011-07-20T19:43:30.237

1That was one hell of a lag ;) – Joey – 2011-07-20T21:15:31.407

@Joey: Just a year or so. About 31,536,000,000 ms latency. – Hello71 – 2011-07-20T21:32:46.033

For printing the content of multiple files (e.g. textfile_1.txt, textfile_2.txt) the following, does also works :

    type textfile*

vaggos2002

Posted 2010-07-12T16:58:20.050

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