Talk:TYPE (DOS command)

Important difference between Unix cat and DOS type
If you specify more than one file name with cat, then the contents of each file will be joined with a newline:

$ cat foo foo $ cat bar bar $ cat foo bar foo bar $

If you specify more than one file name with type, then the contents of each file are preceded with a newline, the file name, and two more newlines (the additional lines of whitespace you see before the prompts below are not from type's output). Then each of these is joined with a newline, which is why you see a blank line between "foo" and "bar.txt":

C:\>type foo.txt foo C:\>type bar.txt bar C:\>type foo.txt bar.txt foo.txt foo bar.txt bar C:\>

Christopher C. Parker t c 18:56, 18 November 2009 (UTC)