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If you miss the cat command on Windows, then few minutes of Scala scripting can be very joyful.

Here is my simple version of cat command in Scala:

//file: cat.scala

import java.io._



val files = args

for(f <- files){

  val reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(f))

  var ln: String = null

  while({ln = reader.readLine; ln != null})

    println(ln)

}

TO run it, try: C:> scala cat.scala myfile.txt