[Trisquel-users] running cat without a direction

I've been messing with my terminal and I've come across something I don't understand. if I run $ cat on it's own, I am booted from any working environment. Can some explain what's going on?

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> if I run $ cat on it's own, I am booted from any working environment. > Can some explain what's going on? What do you mean by "booted from"? When I run `cat` without any arguments, it just hangs until I cancel the command with Ctrl+C. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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When you call cat without arguments, it expects to get the input from standard input, which means from your keyboard.

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Map the cat? Sorry, I'm out of here.

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mop the cat

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cancelling the command, I guess that's what I was indirectly trying to learn here. thanks!

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so is it just waiting for a further command? or is it actually running the cat program somehow?

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Now that's a direction!

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excellent magic banana!